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Meanings of flail in English

Catalan
estomacar
Spanish
sacudir

Give a thrashing to; beat hard.

estomacar
Synonyms
Examples for "lam"
Examples for "lam"
1
Cash and calls weren't the only thing Massino got on the lam.
King of the godfathers: "big joey" massino and the fall of the b...
2
Stinker is a bargee, but he was quite right to lam me.
The Right Stuff: Some Episodes in the Career of a North Briton
3
We're both on the lam now. He glanced idly toward the woman.
The wrong venus
4
I'm liable to lam your head off, threatened the big man sullenly.
Steve Yeager
5
De way that gal lam me across the head was a caution!
Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States...
1
Titus had one last thrash, one final attempt to pry himself free.
Heir of Fire
2
Either one of them could thrash half the police in New Orleans.
Her Weight in Gold
3
Henry: Kind of the reason why we like it, especially in thrash.
Radio NZ
4
With a strangled yell, I regain control of my body and thrash.
Hull zero three
5
Then he began to thrash around like a thresher in a barn.
Original Short Stories — Volume 13
1
The two of you will have to thresh it out between yourselves.
When Egypt Went Broke: A Novel
2
The men thresh the last sheaf till it is reduced to chopped straw.
The Golden Bough: A Study of Magic and Religion
3
The milker would not thresh and the master did not appear.
The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, V...
4
Now we have the place to ourselves; and we'll thresh this matter out.
The Riverman
5
The Leaders of Thought will have to thresh that out soon.
Hermione and Her Little Group of Serious Thinkers
Usage of flail in English
1
He stopped firing to flail at the fire with his free hand.
The Neutronium Alchemist
2
I flail around, trying to use vines and trunks to right myself.
Catching Fire
3
The stick with which the beating is done is called a flail.
Daddy Takes Us to the Garden / The Daddy Series for Little Folks
4
He went out to the barn and got hold of a flail.
The Pink Fairy Book
5
Even as he dropped, the giant flail swept down upon the soldiers.
The Metal Monster
6
But they took turns using the flail, and thought this great fun.
Daddy Takes Us to the Garden / The Daddy Series for Little Folks
7
Isis brought him a crook and flail-thetwin scepters of the pharaohs.
The red pyramid
8
He had a flail in his hand, which he brandished at Kuisl.
The hangman's daughter
9
I got up just as Caine came back in, swinging his flail.
Side Jobs
10
The next corpse brought in had flail fractures on the rib cage.
Anil's ghost
11
Finally I dropped him to the ground, watched him gasp and flail.
Afterlife: the resurrection chronicles
12
No Pharaoh had ever granted the crook and flail to a woman.
Nefertiti
13
I flail, freak out, trying to do something to shake him off.
Wired
14
The crook and flail of power were in her right hand.
Nefertiti
15
As soon as she hit the water, she started to flail.
The Lying Game
16
Consider staying rooted in your own thinking while others flail about.
Introvert power: why your inner life is your hidden strength
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Translations for flail
Flail through the time
Flail across language varieties
United States of America
Common
United Kingdom
Common