Flail (Noun)
Meaning
An implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end; used in manual threshing.
Classification
Nouns denoting man-made objects.
Examples
- Farmers used to manually thresh grain using a flail until mechanization took over.
- The flail was so worn out that the farmer had to replace its stick before the harvest season.
- Historians studied the ancient farming techniques which included the use of a flail for beating grains.
- Threshing with a flail was an arduous task requiring plenty of labor and great physical strength.
- Traditional farmers in many societies passed down the flail as an essential farming tool from generation to generation.