flail

• an implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end
• give a thrashing to
• move like a flail
• 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
• An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded

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