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English
Image:Klassischer-Flegel.jpg|thumb|right|150px|a flail (weapon)
Etymology
From L. flagellum, 'whip'
Pronunciation
IPA|/fleɪl/
audio|en-us-flail.ogg|Audio (US)
Rhymes: Rhymes:English:-eɪl|-eɪl
Noun
en-noun
- 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.
Quotations
1631 — w:John Milton|John Milton, s:L'Allegro|L'Allegro
:When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, <br/>His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn <br/>That ten day-labourers could not end;
1816 — w:Samuel Taylor Coleridge|Samuel Taylor Coleridge, s:Kubla Khan|Kubla Khan
:Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, <br/>Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail
1842 — w:Henry Wadsworth Longfellow|Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, s:The Slave in the Dismal Swamp|The Slave in the Dismal Swamp
:On him alone the curse of Cain <br/>Fell, like a flail on the garnered grain, <br/>And struck him to the earth!
1879 — w:Henry George|Henry George, s:Progress and Poverty|Progress and Poverty, ch V
Translations
trans-top|a tool
Dutch: Vlegel m
French: Fléau m
German: Flegel m
Latin: pertica trituaria
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Portuguese: mangual m
Polish: cep m
Russian: цеп (cep) m
Spanish: mayal m
Swedish: slaga
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trans-top|a weapon
Czech: řemdih m
French: Fléau m
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Russian: киÑтень (kist'én') m, моргенштерн (morg'enÅ¡térn) m
Swedish: stridsgissel, morgonstjärna
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Verb
en-verb
- To beat using a flail or similar.
- To wave or swing vigorously.
- To thresh.
Quotations
1937 — w:H. P. Lovecraft|H. P. Lovecraft, s:The Evil Clergyman|The Evil Clergyman
Translations
trans-top|to wave or swing vigorously
Spanish: debatirse
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Swedish: fäkta, vifta
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trans-top|to thresh
Dutch: dorsen
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Spanish: desgranar
Swedish: tröska
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