flail 的 2 个定义
- 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.
- to beat or swing with or as if with a flail.
flail 近义词
beat, strike
更多flail例句
- He begins to flail and exhaust himself before submerging for good.
- The younger boy has gone under the river, and the girl continues to flail in the older boy's arms.
- My wife, at least, enjoys watching me flail about on our elliptical.
- He is going to have to work hard not to flail around aimlessly, following the lead of congressional Democrats.
- Watching them squirm is more fun than watching Romney and Paul Ryan flail away.
- Even if poverty were gone, the flail could still beat hard enough upon the grain and chaff of humanity.
- The farmer caught up a huge flail with which he was wont to thresh out his oats.
- Raoul, whose flail had made even De Carnac give way, turned to follow, but Richard was on him.
- Arms some had, but arms none used; for Trenchefer dashed them down as the flail smites, ere one could raise or draw.
- He struck a poor man for a trifling word, with a flail, which proved fatal to the unoffending object.