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Word entry · 5 letters

flail

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"Wave wildly"

5 letters · collected on this word page

5 lettersPronunciation /fleɪl/Part of speech verb, nounSorted afillStarts with FEnds with L1 cluesCommon crossword word
1F2L3A4I5L

Definitions

  1. give a thrashing to; beat hard

Used in a sentence

  • When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end;
  • Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail
  • On him alone the curse of Cain Fell, like a flail on the garnered grain, And struck him to the earth!

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