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Synonyms for flail

Collins Thesaurus of the English Language – Complete and Unabridged 2nd Edition. 2002 © HarperCollins Publishers 1995, 2002

Synonyms for flail

to swing about or strike at wildly

to beat (plants) with a machine or by hand to separate the grain from the straw

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Synonyms for flail

an implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end

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move like a flail

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When the platen is powered up and running hot, the flails are extended, and when they encounter vegetation, they cut it.
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Demining vehicles that use flails to churn the earth and destroy anti-personnel mines date back to World War II.
QUESTIONS have been asked about why the Second World War solution of armoured vehicles with flails are not used by our brave soldiers to clear Afghanistan roadways of bombs.
A 20-YEAR-OLD man caught with rice flails in breach of a suspended prison sentence and a community order has been spared jail because he has found a job.
A DISABLED man was spared jail yesterday after offensive weapons - a metal cosh and a pair of rice flails - were found inside his car on a North Wales industrial estate.
Yet there is ample temperament in the way she spirals her wrists, snaps her fan, and flails her bata in the sophisticated Guajira.
One of Durham's officers, in his landing craft, said: "Away to the east, about 800 yards from where our craft was due to beach, I could see a Sherman tank fitted with flails crashing its way through a minefield.
A time-lapse movie made using images from the Chandra X-ray Observatory shows that the outer half of the jet bends and flails. In mere weeks, the jet, which contains bright blobs flying out at half the sped of light, varies from being straight to hook-shaped.
Quality of chips produced with chain flails and woodland chippers.
It uses flails and an enormous amount of energy to impact a surface.
Michael Kaplan, John Sanborn, and Jim Simmons' much hyped Psychic Detective flails against unintentionally B dialogue and cheesy acting, and what feeling of discovery it does deliver arrives without the sense of a controlling intelligence behind it.