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

Definitions

1. noun. 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.
2. noun. An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded.
3. noun. an implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end; used in manual threshing
4. verb. give a thrashing to; beat hard

   Synonyms: lam, thrash, thresh

5. verb. move like a flail; thresh about

   "Her arms were flailing"

   Synonyms: thresh

Synonyms

lam, thrash, thresh

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in flail:

filla

Common word forms

flails, flailed, flailing

Words from these letters

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