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flail::noun | Spocien Dictionary
| Type | Words |
|---|---|
| Type of | implement |
Examples of flail
flail
Greer was left to flail away at Williams as he gathered it in for the touchdown.
From the sportsillustrated.cnn.com
Take the opening scene, in which Jon Hamm and Kristen Wiig flail about on a bed.
From the thisisbristol.co.uk
Reflexively, you flail your hands and gyrate your torso to regain your balance.
From the blogs.psychcentral.com
Her role is sketchy, and Allen lets her flail, all sweetness and high spirits.
From the chron.com
He was tugging at his earlobe as he watched Hazel flail and howl on the floor.
From the denverpost.com
And when the wins start to dry up, there is always the temptation to flail around.
From the nzherald.co.nz
The frustrated urge to flee has become the venomous urge to flail one another.
From the time.com
Threshing may be done by beating the grain using a flail on a threshing floor.
From the en.wikipedia.org
In this remarkable picture drunken skaters flail as they try to keep their balance.
From the nytimes.com
- An implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end; used in manual threshing
- Thrash: give a thrashing to; beat hard
- Move like a flail; thresh about; "Her arms were flailing"
- A flail is an agricultural tool used for threshing to separate grains from their husks.
- A mine flail is a vehicle-mounted device that makes a safe path through a mine-field by deliberately detonating land mines in front of the vehicle that carries it. They were first used by the British during World War II.
- The military flail or simply flail is a weapon commonly attributed to the Middle Ages but for which only a limited amount of historical evidence currently exists for most of this era. ...
- 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; To beat using a flail or similar ...
- A hammer hinged to an axle so that is can be used to break or crush material.
- The process of fracturing or crushing seedpods in order to free the seeds. This can take the form of everything from simply rubbing broccoli pods between your hands to driving over bean vines with a car.
