GRE Word List

FLAIL

a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely

The meaning of the word flail is a hand threshing implement consisting of a wooden handle at the end of which a stouter and shorter stick is so hung as to swing freely.

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