
1) Attract the lifeguard 2) Beat 3) Beat hard 4) Brandish 5) Dance wildly 6) Egyptian artefact type 7) Give a thrashing to 8) Grain thresher 9) Grain threshing tool 10) Grain-threshing implement 11) Hand-thesher 12) Hand-thresher 13) Implement 14) Mechanical hand tool 15) Medieval weapon 16) Move like a flail
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1) Flutter 2) Lash
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A flail is an agricultural tool used for threshing to separate grains from their husks. It is usually made from two or more large sticks attached by a short chain; one stick is held and swung, causing the other (the swipple) to strike a pile of grain, loosening the husks. The precise dimensions and shape of flails were determined by generations of...
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[weapon] The term flail refers to two different weapons: a two-handed infantry weapon derived from an agricultural tool and a one-handed weapon. The defining characteristic of both is that they involve a separate striking head attached to a handle by a flexible rope, strap, or chain. The two-handed variant saw use in a limited number of con...
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• (n.) An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded. • (n.) An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing free...
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A mace that has the weight connected to the handle by a chain. Commonly called a 'morning star' when the weight is spiked, though this may not be historically accurate. In Bohemia, this usually refers to a huge two-handed version that had a short, (~1.5 feet) wooden iron-wrapped weight connected to a 5-8 foot-long handle, which was capable of killi...
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ancient hand tool for threshing grain. It consists of two pieces of wood: the handstaff, or helve, and the beater, joined by a thong. The handstaff ...
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1. An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely. 'His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn.' (Milton) ... 2. An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking ...
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(flāl) exhibiting abnormal or pathologic mobility, such as a flail chest or a flail joint.
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Flail noun [ Latin
flagellum whip, scourge, in Late Latin , a threshing flail: confer Old French
flael ,
flaiel , French
fléau . See
Flagellum .]
1. An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at...
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A flail is two pieces of wood joined by a leather thong or short metal chain and used for threshing. One piece of wood is held and the other then swung.
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[
n] - an implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end 2. [v] - move like a flail
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a wooden bar with a wooden handle used for removing grain or seeds from stalks
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noun an implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end; used in manual threshing
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Whip like part of the royal insigna.
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an instrument for threshing grain, consisting of a staff or handle to one end of which is attached a freely swinging stick or bar. · a similar instrument used as a weapon of war.
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To ride out of control.
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A term used to describe out of control riding.
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[SAT terms] thresh about
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[Intelligent words] thrash about
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