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1. Oxford American Dictionary

   flail

   • IPA[flāl]

   美式

   • n.
     a threshing tool consisting of a wooden staff with a short heavy stick swinging from it.；a device similar to a flail, used as a weapon or for flogging.
   • v.
     wave or swing or cause to wave or swing wildly；flounder; struggle uselessly

   • verb: flail, 3rd person present: flails, gerund or present participle: flailing, past tense: flailed, past participle: flailed

2. • 釋義

   n.

   名詞

   • 1. a threshing tool consisting of a wooden staff with a short heavy stick swinging from it.
   • ▪ a device similar to a flail, used as a weapon or for flogging.
   • ▪ a machine having an action similar to a flail, used for threshing or slashing a flail hedge trimmer

   v.

   動詞

   • 1. wave or swing or cause to wave or swing wildly his arms were flailing helplessly he flailed his arms and drove her away 同義詞 wave, swing, thrash around, flap around, beat around, ... 更多windmill, move erratically
   • ▪ flounder; struggle uselessly I was flailing about in the water he flailed around on the snow 同義詞 flounder, struggle, thrash, thresh, squirm, ... 更多wriggle, writhe, twist, splash, stumble, blunder, fumble, wiggle, twitch
   • 2. beat; flog he escorted them, flailing their shoulders with his cane 同義詞 thrash, beat, strike, batter, drub, ... 更多flog, whip, lash, scourge, flay, flagellate, strap, switch, tan, cane, tan/whip someone's hide, give someone a hiding, beat the living daylights out of, clout, welt, belabor, informalwallop, whack, lam, give someone a (good) hiding, larrup