FLAIL
\flˈe͡ɪl], \flˈeɪl], \f_l_ˈeɪ_l]\
Definitions of FLAIL
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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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An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded.
By Oddity Software
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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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An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded.
By Noah Webster.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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An instrument for thrashing or beating grain from the ear, consisting of the hand-staff, which is held in the hand, the swiple, which strikes the grain, and the middle band, which connects the hand-staff and swiple, and which may be a thong of leather, a hempen rope, or a rope of straw-now little used; an ancient military weapon resembling the common flail, but having the strengthened with a coating of iron and armed with rows of spikes.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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