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- noun Plural form of
flail . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
flail .
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Examples
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The flails were the simplest of instruments, and were always seen with the same accompaniment -- the interior of a barn.
The Life of the Fields Richard Jefferies 1867
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Every individual composing that mob carried some weapon calculated for defence, such as flails, scythes, sickles, bludgeons, &., and this mode of arming caused them to wear a most formidable appearance; while the passion that superstition had called up was strongly depicted in their inflamed features.
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Whips: May also be called flails, floggers, and cat o’ nines.
Come Hither Dr. Gloria G. Brame 2000
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Whips: May also be called flails, floggers, and cat o’ nines.
Come Hither Dr. Gloria G. Brame 2000
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Whips: May also be called flails, floggers, and cat o’ nines.
Come Hither Dr. Gloria G. Brame 2000
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In a blanket party, the victim is restrained by having a blanket flung over him and held down at the corners while he sleeps, then the remaining members of the group strike him repeatedly with improvised "flails" (a sock or bath towel containing something solid, most commonly a bar of soap).
Good As You 2009
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Rainbow Trout, Run -- An intensely wrought account of a fisherman who finds the old methods of flyfishing too confining and flails out at those who would prevent him from devising new strategies.
Satirical 2009
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Alison flails about like a landed salmon trying to take off her skis.
Why I don't ski alison 2010
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Alison yells and flails for 1.7 minutes, which is the time period between ski lift chairs passing directly overhead.
Why I don't ski alison 2010
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Silver Dragon Studio makes $50 flails out of novelty outsize D20s.
Boing Boing 2009
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