flail
连枷,连耞,梿枷,枷锁
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Definitions
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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 beat or swing with or as if with a flail.
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Examples
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.