Flail

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A manual threshing device consisting of a long wooden handle or staff and a shorter, free-swinging stick attached to its end. noun

To beat or strike with or as if with a flail. intransitive verb

To wave or swing vigorously; thrash. intransitive verb

To thresh using a flail. intransitive verb

To move vigorously or erratically; thrash about. intransitive verb

To strike or lash out violently. intransitive verb

To thresh grain. intransitive verb

To whip; scourge.

To strike with or as if with a flail; thresh.

An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear, consisting of the hand-staff, which is held in the hand, the swingle or swiple, which strikes the grain, and the middle band, which connects the hand-staff and swingle, and may be a thong of leather or a rope of hemp or straw. noun

Milit., a similar implement used as a weapon of war in the middle ages. noun

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. noun

An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded. noun

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. noun

A weapon which has the (usually spherical) striking part attached to the handle with a flexible joint such as a chain. noun

To beat using a flail or similar implement. verb

To wave or swing vigorously verb

To thresh. verb

Move like a flail; thresh about verb

An implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end; used in manual threshing noun

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 be extremely high on meth. To the point where the person is trying to take apart and put together working electronics/gadgets while having 6 conversations with different people at once and not accomplishing ANYTHING, generally resulting in at least 1 person getting very angry. Urban Dictionary

(new)origin, Vancouver, BC, Canada from the word flail, to act with abandon. Has many meanings; losing something can be called flailed, running around like a chicken with your head cut off usually when high on drugs can be called flailing, someone going crazy would be called a flailer, flail would be a bunch of random stuff that a flailer has amassed. Can also refer to wasting time. Urban Dictionary

V. to flail the act of hyper speed talking about one's fandom and/or obsession. Sqeeling, clapping, gasping, obsessive behavior dizziness, speechlessness and random dancing are all symptoms. Urban Dictionary

To dance with crazy arm motions which is entertaining for both the viewer and performer! Urban Dictionary

V.To conduct routine daily activities in a spastic manor often resulting in hilarity, expressed usually in degrees of Morley. n.A common activity becomes a flail when the expected outcome is replaced with one that involves any number of clumsy events. Drugs, Alcohol, or Caffine are sometimes but not always involved in a flail. It is often in the nature of the individual performing the fail, sometimes their most defining trait. Urban Dictionary

N. Someone who fucks up in process of doing something productive. Usually invloves being under the influence of drugs and/or alcohol v. To fuck up in the process of do something productive or that you normally could do very easily. Urban Dictionary

1. A medieval weapon resembling a mace, consisting of a wooden, steel, or iron pole or stick for a handle, a chain or rope, and a spiked metal ball or cylinder, that was used by knights in battle. 2. An type of Egyptian whip, usually leather, with three or more tails. Flails can be seen held in the hands of pharoahs in paintings, hieroglypics, and on sarcophogi (coffins). Sometimes used in bondage play. See also cat o' nine tails. Urban Dictionary

Usually associated with drunk people. To flail is to be out of control. Usually involves fucking shit up, hollering like Rick Flair,and being routy. Urban Dictionary

To struggle in the attempt of a (usually physical) goal, without success. Depending on context, can have a derogatory or mocking connotation. Urban Dictionary

A long piece of wood or metal with a chain and then a ball (usually spiked) attached; it is used for smashing noggins Urban Dictionary

Words that are spelled similarly to flail:
flail, fail, frail, flair, lail, flaig, flaim, flain, fmail, flbil.

Words that are triggered by (strongly associated with) the word flail:
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Words that rhyme with flail:
scale, rail, pale, hail, entail, trail, mail, avail, email, whale, sale, detail, tail, prevail, nail, bail, cocktail, fail, curtail, ale, sail, tale, veil, assail, hale, retail, stale, gale, bale, frail, quail, travail, vale, wail, male, dovetail, blackmail, wholesale, swale, zale, telltale, voicemail, pail, dale, ail, braille, kale, grail, shale, jail, female, upscale, snail, wale, vail, derail, unveil, impale, exhale, yale, surveil, fairytale, inhale, abigail, holy grail, foxtail, quale, cale, gmail, guardrail, ponytail, thumbnail, handrail, brail, greenmail, gael, dwale, gail, coattail, dail, orrell, toenail, resale, monorail, fantail, martingale, airedale, horsetail, clydesdale, countervail, folktale, airmail, soleil, hobnail, biennale, faille, kail, calle, salle, shail.

Adjectives that are often used to describe flail:
protestant, wooden, heavy, small, shadowy, old, disabled, mighty, fashioned, long, hand, constant, giant, icy, german, ancient, strong, human, military, modern, busy, distant, royal, angry, horrid, terrible, clamorous, partial, spiked, gigantic, fiery, light, looking, jointed, huge, haired, peaceful, wintry, wrinkly, tall, stout, hinged, bound, tiny, primitive, heavenly, idle, vigorous, english, salty, severe, hole, indented, sweeping, stinging, honored, rotary, louder, critical, formidable, frantic, crusted, dim, invisible, roman, lumping, spiritual, quite, powerful, agricultural, gilded, soft, induced, pitiless, clumsy, double, reckless, harmless, lighter, ceremonial.

Nouns that are often described by the adjective flail:
chest, joints, segments, tanks, mowers, strokes, threshing, beat, dance, leaflets, sooples, types, men, toes, hut, limbs, bearers, extremity, limb, strings.

Words that sound like flail:
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