英语词汇“flail”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

单词

flail

释义

a threshing implement consisting of a stout short free-swinging stick attached to a wooden handle

[Middle English fleil, flail, partly from Old English and partly from early French flaiel, ultimately from late Latin flagellum: see flagellate¹]

(often + about/around) to wave one's arms and legs about violently; to flounder or thresh about

flail around in the water

said of the arms: to wave about violently

verb trans

to thresh (grain)

to strike (something) with a threshing action

with oars flailing the water

to swing (one's arms) about wildly

flailing his arms to ward off the insects

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