To flail means to wave around wildly. If you are stranded on a deserted island and you see a ship in the distance, it’s a good idea to flail your arms in the air to get the captain’s attention.
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.
Noun
an implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end; used in manual threshing
Verb
give a thrashing to; beat hard
Verb
move like a flail; thresh about; "Her arms were flailing"
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 freely.
n.
An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often
having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded.
Flail
His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn.2.
No citizen thought himself safe unless he carried under his coat a small flail, loaded with lead, to brain the Popish assassins.
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.
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