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Definition of flail

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Flail (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..

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Taplings :: Taplings (n. pl.) The strong double leathers by which the two parts of a flail are united.

Flail :: Flail (n.) An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded..

Flail :: Flail (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..

Flaily :: Flaily (a.) Acting like a flail.

Thrashel :: Thrashel (n.) An instrument to thrash with; a flail.

Capling :: Capling (n.) The cap or coupling of a flail, through which the thongs pass which connect the handle and swingel..

Thresh :: Thresh (v. t.) To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old straw..

Swipper :: Swiple (n.) That part of a flail which strikes the grain in thrashing; a swingel.

Souple :: Souple (n.) That part of a flail which strikes the grain.

Swinger :: Swingel (n.) The swinging part of a flail which falls on the grain in thrashing; the swiple.