FLAIL meaning: Swing weapon with spiked ball

We found 37 dictionaries that define the word flail:

General (27 matching dictionaries)

flail: Merriam-Webster
flail: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
flail: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
flail: Collins English Dictionary
flail: Vocabulary.com
Flail, flail: Wordnik
flail: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
flail: Wiktionary
flail: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
flail: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
flail: Infoplease Dictionary
flail: Dictionary.com
flail (n.): Online Etymology Dictionary
flail: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
Flail (agriculture), Flail (disambiguation), Flail (weapon), Flail: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
Flail: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
flail: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
flail: Rhymezone
Flail: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
flail: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
flail: FreeDictionary.org
flail: Mnemonic Dictionary
flail: TheFreeDictionary.com
flail: Wikimedia Commons US English Pronunciations
flail: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Art (1 matching dictionary)

An Illustrated Dictionary of Jewelry (No longer online)

Business (1 matching dictionary)

Flail (agriculture), flail: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)

Flail (agriculture), flail: Encyclopedia

Medicine (4 matching dictionaries)

flail: Merriam-Webster Medical Dictionary
Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
online medical dictionary (No longer online)
Flail (agriculture), flail: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)

FLAIL: Acronym Finder

Slang (1 matching dictionary)

flail: Green’s Dictionary of Slang

Tech (1 matching dictionary)

SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (

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▸ noun:  A tool used for threshing, consisting of a long handle (handstock) with a shorter stick (swipple or swingle) attached with a short piece of chain, thong or similar material.
▸ noun:  A weapon which has the (usually spherical) striking part attached to the handle with a flexible joint such as a chain.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To beat using a flail or similar implement.
▸ verb:  (transitive) To wave or swing vigorously
▸ verb:  (transitive) To thresh.
▸ verb:  (intransitive) To move like a flail.

Similar:

thresh, thrash, lam, swingle, swipple, swiple, swingstock, swingel, swing-stock, strickle, more...

Opposite:

succeed, thrive, prosper

Types:

morning star, mace, more...

Phrases:

flail chest, flail segment, flail tanks, flail tank, flail joint, more...

Adjectives:

protestant, wooden, heavy, small, shadowy, old, disabled, mighty, fashioned, long, hand

Colors:

rust, crimson, scarlet, maroon, burgundy, more...