Antonyms for flail

Grammar : Verb

Spell : fleyl

Phonetic Transcription : fleɪl

Definition of flail

Origin : "implement for threshing grain," c.1100, perhaps from an unrecorded Old English *flegel, which probably represents West Germanic *flagil (cf. Middle Dutch and Low German vlegel, Old High German flegel, German flegel), a borrowing of Late Latin flagellum "winnowing tool, flail," from Latin flagellum "whip" (see flagellum).

verb beat, strike

Example sentences :

The scythe, the sickle, and the flail were the same as their forbears had used for centuries.
Extract from : « Union and Democracy » by Allen Johnson

He had one cop in his left arm, using him as a flail against the others.
Extract from : « Police Your Planet » by Lester del Rey

Do you like the sound of the line, “I wield the flail of the lashing hail”?
Extract from : « Journeys Through Bookland, Vol. 10 » by Charles Herbert Sylvester

Theodoric of Engedi, you know, the Flail of the Desert, that's a splendid one to do.
Extract from : « Margaret Montfort » by Laura E. Richards

Later still he was threshing some of this corn with a flail.
Extract from : « Change in the Village » by (AKA George Bourne) George Sturt

The flail of the thrasher does not fall more swiftly upon the corn.
Extract from : « Burlesques » by William Makepeace Thackeray

I think the best kind of flail for a beginner is a long cane.
Extract from : « The Horsewoman » by Alice M. Hayes

This I cut with a sickle, and then thrashed it with a flail.
Extract from : « By Canoe and Dog-Train » by Egerton Ryerson Young

The sounds from inside, like the beating of a flail, continued.
Extract from : « The Campfire Girls of Roselawn » by Margaret Penrose

She fills her barns; and the flail, with monotonous sound, is heard.
Extract from : « Forgotten Tales of Long Ago » by E. V. Lucas

Synonyms for flail

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