When one flail is upon the straw, another has just left it, another is halfway down, and the fourth is high and straight in the air.
A typical flail used in Wisconsin in 1840 for threshing grain.
The levers, 14 inches long, project from the frame and strike the floor much as a flail would.
This type flail was used to beat grain free from unbound bundles of grain scattered about on the barn floor.
The flail is not used for threshing rice but is employed for barley.
They seem to be only heads, from which legs and arms flail out grotesquely.
His enemy in front is a Union battery, which has been a flail to the Southern army.
Red is the bloody flail with which McMahon thrashes out Communism.
The small iron rod, on the head of which the cappence of the old-fashioned flail played.
Sometimes the person who gives the last stroke with the flail is called the Old Woman, and is wrapt in the straw of the last sheaf, or has a bundle of straw fastened on his back.
Then they put a flail round his neck and a straw rope about his body.
The man whose flail is the last to fall after the command to stop has been given is immediately surrounded by all the rest, crying out that "He has struck the Old Rye-woman dead.
To detect him, seven bundles of brushwood were silently threshed with the flail on the threshing-floor, and the stranger who appeared at the door of the barn during the threshing was the Rush-cutter.
If he says yes, they put the arms of the threshing-flail round his neck (as if he were a sheaf of corn), and press them together so tightly that he is nearly choked.
The Lord useth his flail of tribulation to separate the chaff from the wheat.
In a word, he became poorer than they that go withflail and rake; yea, than the very birds or foxes, and all to do thee good.
Yea, many children that have been born to good estates, have yet been brought to a flail and a rake, through this beastly sin of their parents.
He sits in a shrine like a god, holding in his hands the crook and flail of Osiris: he is wrapped in tight bandages like the mummified Osiris; indeed, there is nothing but his name to prove that he is not Osiris himself.
A similar flail is used by peasants in Crete to extract the ladanum gum from the shrubs.
Thus the northern end of the flail was held and movement along the entire line was slowed down or suspended.
The little man had a flail in his hands and was going toward a heap of grain.
At first he stood quite still, and then he laid down the flail and took up the clothes.
She had picked up the flail and now she put it in my hands and gave me a push toward the door.
I had time to raise my flail and bring it down upon the head of the leader, who fell as I had seen a beef fall under the ax.
That done, I covered the floor again and the thump of the flail eased my loneliness until in the middle of the afternoon two of my schoolmates came and asked me to go swimming, with them.
Another man stopped beyond the reach of my flail and, after a second's hesitation, turned and ran away in the darkness.
I kept laying down beds of wheat on the barn-floor and beating them out with the flail until the sun was well over the roof when I sat down to eat my luncheon.
When any one lot of stems on a sheet is dry a light flailor a rod will serve to beat the seed loose.
Usually in less than a week the tops will have become dry enough to be beaten out with a light flail or a rod.
Another arm javelined from its place like a flying snake, clicked at the end of another, became a hundred-foot chain which swirled like a flail through the huddling mass.
Even as he dropped, the giant flail swept down upon the soldiers.
That part of a flail which strikes the grain in thrashing; a swingel.
The swinging part of a flail which falls on the grain in thrashing; the swiple.
Death with a furred cap and mantle, and a flail in his right hand, seizes a nobleman.
That model was shown to the visitors of the Tower in the present century; and, by comparison with the vast array of spindles in a modern silk-mill, would seem as inefficient as the flail compared with the thrashing-machine.
Sprinkle or Hand-flail of bronze: from the Museum of Mitau in Courland.
The Military Flail appears in the following woodcut from Strutt's Horda vol.
If one should go to sleep, or fail to answer the whoop of his companion, an older warrior would soon issue from Powhatan's cabin and flail the offender with a stout wooden cudgel.
But one day he seized a flail for separating wheat from chaff, broke his master's skull with it, and then put on his clothes and fled to Poland.
Out of the tow we twisted bag strings, flail strings, and other strings.
The sound of the flail and the fanning mill is heard in the farmers' barns no more.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flail" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
