meaning of flail
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.
2. An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded.
3. an implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end; used in manual threshing
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