flail

flail has 5 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 5.

Definitions

• n.. 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.
• n.. An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded.
• n.. an implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end; used in manual threshing
• v.. give a thrashing to; beat hard
• v.. move like a flail; thresh about; "Her arms were flailing"