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• I flail like an angry cat, reaching out for anything I can grasp.2021, Andy Weir, chapter 1, in Project Hail Mary: A Novel, Ballantine Books, via Google Books, →ISBN, page 17. From the entry motherfluffer
• So, as nets flailed and spears jabbed, she set about dismounting the riders.2018 September 11, Angus Watson, The Land You Never Leave, Orbit, →ISBN. From the entry catback
• How many companies get the chance to flail around for 6 years and then get a second kick at the can?2012 January 20, Eric Jackson, “In Defense of Jerry Yang”, in Forbes, retrieved 13 Feb 2014. From the entry kick at the can
• He bobbed up and flailed toward the near bank.2011, Curt Iles, A Spent Bullet: Louisiana 1941, page 125. From the entry bob up
• Traditional flails had a handle (haft), usually about 40 inches long, and a swipple (also called a swingle), about 24 inches long.2011, Robert E. Gough, Cheryl Moore-Gough, The Complete Guide to Saving Seeds, Storey Publishing, page 46. From the entry swipple
• Small hands flailed, the downy head turned from one side to another and suddenly the rosepetal mouth opened and Emily let out a wail.2011, Catherine George, No More Secrets. From the entry rosepetal
• It’s also packed with noteworthy actors hamming it up: Johansson, Mendes and Vega are vamptastic noir creations but Jackson just flails about as The Octopus.2010, Dennis Willis, Flick Nation: 2010 Movie Yearbook, page 223. From the entry vamptastic
• Barry continued to shout obscenities and to flail about in a strait jacket, finally succumbing to the effects of intravenously administered tranquilizers.1969, Theodore Millon, Modern Psychopathology: A Biosocial Approach to Maladaptive Learning and Functioning. From the entry flail about
• After being thrashed by flail or whipped off, the rice was milled and dressed wholly by hand or by a crude machine called a ‘pecker’.1949, S. C. Murray, This Our Land: the Story of the Agricultural Society of South Carolina, page 41. From the entry pecker
• "I was the flail of the Lord up in those parts, I may tell you, though you won't find it in any Blue-book."1912, Arthur Conan Doyle, The Lost World […], London; New York, N.Y.: Hodder and Stoughton, →OCLC. From the entry blue book
• Blast his sowl--that hunter I mane, an' if iver I cotch him, may I be used for a flail if I don't settle his accounts."1911, Edward S. Ellis, The Lost Trail. From the entry cotch
• The saga of Newt Gingrich's ethics suddenly resembles a brawl between blindfolded boxers who flail away so wildly that each lands a haymaker on his own jaw.1997 January 20, George Church, “Newt's Day of Deliverance”, in TIME, archived from the original on 22 Dec 2008. From the entry haymaker
• The flail has now become such a rare agricultural implement that it is well to bear in mind that its two main parts were the handstaff and swipple.1907, Marmaduke Charles Frederick Morris, Nunburnholme: its history and antiquities, H. Frowde, page 227. From the entry swipple
• The flail consisted of two parts, a six foot wooden staff attached by a sheepskin thong to a four foot buailtean, swiple of wood, thick tarry cable, or dried tangle.1978, Donald Macdonald, Lewis: A history of the island, page 76. From the entry swiple

Meaning of flail

1. noun A tool used for threshing, consisting of a long handle (handstock) with a shorter stick (swipple or swingle) attached with a short piece of chain, thong or similar material.
2. noun A weapon which has the (usually spherical) striking part attached to the handle with a flexible joint such as a chain.
3. noun Part of a rotating device, often used for cutting vegetation.

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How do you use flail in a sentence?

Flail is used as a noun and verb. For example: “He was flailing wildly, but didn't land a blow.”

What is a short sentence with flail?

“He bobbed up and flailed toward the near bank.”

What does flail mean?

Flail means a tool used for threshing, consisting of a long handle (handstock) with a shorter stick (swipple or swingle) attached with a short piece of chain, thong or similar material.