flail
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /fleɪl/
flail (plural flails)
- A tool used for threshing, consisting of a long handle with a shorter stick attached with a short piece of chain, thong or similar material.
- A weapon which has the (usually spherical) striking part attached to the handle with a flexible joint such as a chain.
- French: fléau
- German: Flegel, Dreschflegel
- Italian: correggiato
- Portuguese: mangual
- Russian: цеп
- Spanish: mayal
- French: fléau d’armes
- German: Flegel
- Italian: mazzafrusto
- Portuguese: mangual
- Russian: кисте́нь
- Spanish: mangual
flail (flails, present participle flailing; past and past participle flailed)
- (transitive) To beat using a flail or similar implement.
- (transitive) To wave or swing vigorously
- Synonyms: thrash
- 1937, H. P. Lovecraft, The Evil Clergyman
- He stopped in his tracks – then, flailing his arms wildly in the air, began to stagger backwards.
- (transitive) To thresh.
- (intransitive) To move like a flail.
- He was flailing wildly, but didn't land a blow.
- French: débattre
- German: wild um sich schlagen
- Russian: разма́хивать
- Spanish: sacudirse, agitarse, debatirse (uncommon)
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