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# flail

«flail» in Mova's school dictionary: **an old farm tool: a wooden stick swung on a handle to…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

noun (flails); verb (flail, flails, flailed, flailing)

### meaning for a pupil

1) A flail is an old farm tool: a wooden stick swung on a handle to beat grain from its husks. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flail/#m1)

2) To flail is to wave or swing the arms or legs wildly. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flail/#m2)

### sense in the lessons

in old country tales, the tool of a farmhand who threshes corn in the barn

### examples

- He beat the corn with a flail in the barn. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flail/#x1)
- Tom would not bring the flail into the palace. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flail/#x2)
- The farmer's flail thudded on the grain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flail/#x3)
- The boy flailed his arms as he fell. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flail/#x4)

### note

nothing for maths

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «flail» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/F/flail/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.