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flail 音标拼音: [fl'el] n. 连枷
vt.
vi. 用连枷打,打 连枷用连枷打,打 flail n 1: an implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end; used in manual threshing v 1: give a thrashing to; beat hard [ synonym: { thrash}, { thresh}, { lam}, { flail}] 2: move like a flail; thresh about; " Her arms were flailing" [ synonym: { flail}, { thresh}] Flail \ Flail\, n. [ L. flagellum whip, scourge, in LL., a threshing flail: cf. OF. flael, flaiel, F. fl[' e] au. 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. [ 1913 Webster] His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn. -- Milton. [ 1913 Webster] 2. An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded. -- Fairholt. [ 1913 Webster] No citizen thought himself safe unless he carried under his coat a small flail, loaded with lead, to brain the Popish assassins. -- Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster] 73 Moby Thesaurus words for " flail": bang, baste, bastinado, batter, beat, belabor, belt, birch, buffet, cane, club, cowhide, cudgel, cut, cut and thrust, drub, feint, flagellate, flail at, flail away at, flap, flog, fustigate, give a whipping, give the stick, hammer, hit at, horsewhip, knock, knout, lace, lambaste, larrup, lash, lash out at, lay on, let drive at, let fly at, lunge at, maul, paste, patter, pelt, pistol- whip, poke at, pommel, pound, pulverize, pummel, rap, rawhide, scourge, sledgehammer, smite, spank, strap, strike at, strike out at, stripe, swing at, swing on, swinge, switch, thrash, thresh, thrust at, thump, trounce, truncheon, wallop, whale, whip, whop
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