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flail
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Definition:a threshing tool, used to separate grains from their husks. It may have been the inspiration for nunchaku (numchucks).
photo: released into the public domain by its author, Schweitzer. This applies worldwide.
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I glanced through the window, where the elm trees were lashing to and fro like flails.
Diana Gabaldon. Outlander (1991)
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He used, when he did not go out shooting, to wear a dressing-gown from morning till dinner-time and at dinner. He would look through plans of some sort, or go round to the stables or to the threshing barn, and joke with the peasant women, who, to be sure, in his presence wielded their flails in leisurely fashion.
Ivan Sergeevich Turgenev. The Jew and Other Stories
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Daniel galloped up silently, holding a naked dagger in his left hand and thrashing the laboring sides of his chestnut horse with his whip as if it were a flail.
Leo Tolstoy. War and Peace: With bonus material from Give War and Peace A Chance by Andrew D. Kaufman
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