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Flail meaning
A tool used for threshing, consisting of a long handle (handstock) with a shorter stick (swipple or swingle) 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. | Part of a rotating device, often used for cutting vegetation.
Example sentences (11)
It is yet another reminder that cinema is locked in a corporate chokehold, robbing artists of the ability even to flail about in style anymore.
Nothing makes me giggle harder than, when watching when one ski slide out from underneath them, they flail about and then look around trying to figure out what happened.
Vince got a small axe from the car and started to flail away at the tree, not making much headway, despite the fact that he was a huge man with big upper body and arms.
All you can do is flail your arms and legs.
Brigitte's Rocket Flail and Whip Shot are very good deterrents for any Sombra main, especially due to the range.
Nio stock could flail and struggle for a while amid Sino-U.
McEwan is so adept at capturing the mood of a moment (witness “Saturday,” published not long after the United States’ 2003 invasion of Iraq) that it was painful to watch him flail in It’s still so early.
A Nok sculpture resident at the Minneapolis Institute of Arts, portrays a sitting dignitary wearing a "Shepherds Crook" on the right arm, and a "hinged flail" on the left.
Nicholson (2000) p. 514 From March to May, farmers used sickles to harvest their crops, which were then threshed with a flail to separate the straw from the grain.
Regarding the association of Osiris with the ram, the god's traditional crook and flail are the instruments of the shepherd, which has suggested to some scholars also an origin for Osiris in herding tribes of the upper Nile.
The symbolism of the flail is more uncertain with shepherds whip, fly-whisk, or association with the god Andjety of the ninth nome of Lower Egypt proposed.