Definitions for flail

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Spelling: [fleyl]
IPA: /fleɪl/

Flail is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 40 anagrams from letters in flail (afill).

Definitions for flail

noun

  1. an instrument for threshing grain, consisting of a staff or handle to one end of which is attached a freely swinging stick or bar.
  2. a similar instrument used as a weapon of war.

verb (used with or without object)

  1. to beat or swing with or as if with a flail.

Origin of flail

before 1100; Middle English fleil (noun), Old English flighel (probably misspelling of *flegil), cognate with Dutch vlegel, German Flegel West Germanic *flagil- Late Latin flagellum flail, La

Examples for flail

Do you like the sound of the line, “I wield the flail of the lashing hail”?

My wife, at least, enjoys watching me flail about on our elliptical.

Theodoric of Engedi, you know, the flail of the Desert, that's a splendid one to do.

Watching them squirm is more fun than watching Romney and Paul Ryan flail away.

He had one cop in his left arm, using him as a flail against the others.

He begins to flail and exhaust himself before submerging for good.

He is going to have to work hard not to flail around aimlessly, following the lead of congressional Democrats.

Later still he was threshing some of this corn with a flail.

The younger boy has gone under the river, and the girl continues to flail in the older boy's arms.

The scythe, the sickle, and the flail were the same as their forbears had used for centuries.

Word Value for flail
Scrable

8

Words with friends

10

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