Flail

n.	1.	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. His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn. - Milton.
	2.	An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded. No citizen thought himself safe unless he carried under his coat a small flail, loaded with lead, to brain the Popish assassins. - Macaulay.

Noun	1.	flail - an implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end; used in manual threshing
Verb	1.	flail - give a thrashing to; beat hard Synonyms: thrash, lam, thresh
	2.	flail - move like a flail; thresh about; "Her arms were flailing" Synonyms: thresh

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