flail
noun/fleɪl/
/fleɪl/
- a tool that has a long handle with a short stick hanging from it, used especially in the past to separate grains of wheat from their dry outer layer, by beating the wheatWord OriginOld English, of West Germanic origin, based on Latin flagellum ‘whip’; probably influenced in Middle English by Old French flaiel or Dutch vlegel.
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