verb, noun
verb (written)
1 ~ (sth) (about / around) to move around without control; to move your arms and legs around without control:
[V] The boys flailed around on the floor. * He was running along, his arms flailing wildly. [also VN]
2 [VN] to hit sb/sth very hard, especially with a stick
noun a tool that has a long handle with a stick swinging from it, used especially in the past to separate grains of wheat from their dry outer covering, by beating the wheat
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for flail is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
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