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flail
flail is a 5-letter English word with 5 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: 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. Face value is 8 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 8 · Words With Friends 10 · 5 senses
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- 1noun
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.
- 2noun
An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded.
- 3noun
an implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end; used in manual threshing
- 4verb
give a thrashing to; beat hard
- 5verb
move like a flail; thresh about
"Her arms were flailing"
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