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 flail [flel]   添加此单词到默认生词本
n. 连枷

vt. 用连枷打, 打

vi. 用连枷打, 打


  1. The dying lamb fell, its legs flailing (about) helplessly.
    小羊快要死了, 倒在地上四条腿又踢又蹬.
  2. The baby's legs flailed under the quilt.
    小孩的两条小腿在被子下面乱动。
  3. The son silently took a flail and they began threshing with four flails.
    儿子也开始悄悄乘枷脱粒四枷.


flail
[ noun ]
  1. an implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end; used in manual threshing

  2. <noun.artifact>
[ verb ]
  1. give a thrashing to; beat hard

  2. <verb.contact> lam thrash thresh
  3. move like a flail; thresh about

  4. <verb.motion>
    thresh
    Her arms were flailing


Flail \Flail\, n. [L. flagellum whip, scourge, in LL., a
threshing flail: cf. OF. flael, flaiel, F. fl['e]au. See
{Flagellum}.]
1. 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.

His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn. --Milton.

2. An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often
having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or
loaded. --Fairholt.

No citizen thought himself safe unless he carried
under his coat a small flail, loaded with lead, to
brain the Popish assassins. --Macaulay.

  1. People lie on the floors, and barefoot women in tattered saris flail the hallways with twig brooms that stir up dust without sweeping it away.
  2. Bashing the water, the men flail away in an effort to snag the fish.
  3. Afghan soldiers used clubs and tree branches to flail cold, hungry people who nearly engulfed Soviet troopers distributing emergency rations in this blockaded city Tuesday.
  4. Businesses flail about to survive under new rules or otherwise lobby to reinvoke the old rules of tariffs or other barriers to competition.
  5. And even as they flail, some admit Mr. Buchanan has served a useful purpose by acting as a lightning rod to deflect criticism.
  6. I found myself hissing 'Enough, enough' as I tried to flail my way out of that insane aviary.' From this horror Keenan is rescued by the sudden arrival of his companion of the following years, John McCarthy.
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