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thrash: give a thrashing to; beat hard an implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end; used in manual threshing move like a flail; thresh about; "Her arms were flailing"
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(flail) (fl[amacr]l) exhibiting abnormal or paradoxical mobility, as flail joint, flail chest, or flail valve.
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| flail joint |
one showing abnormal mobility.
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| flail chest |
one whose wall moves paradoxically with respiration, owing to multiple fractures of the ribs.
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| flail |
A flail is an agricultural tool used for threshing, separating grains from their husks. Normally it is made from two or more sticks attached by a short chain or leather thong; one stick is held and swung, causing the other to strike a pile of grain, loosening the husks. The precise dimensions and shape of a flail would have been developed by generations of farmers to suit the particular grain they were harvesting. ...
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