Definition of Flil
Flail (?), n. [L. flagellum
whip, scourge, in LL., a threshing flail: cf. OF. flael,
flaiel, F. fléau. See Flagellum.]
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. Fairholt.
No citizen thought himself safe unless he carried
under his coat a small flail, loaded with lead, to brain the
Popish assassins. Macaulay.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- a tool used for threshing, consisting of a long handle with a shorter stick attached with a short piece of chain or thong etc.
- a weapon which has the striking part attached to the handle with a flexible joint such as a chain etc.
- to beat using a flail or similar
- to wave or swing vigorously
- to thresh
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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