Flail vs Stoush - What's the difference?
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A tool used for threshing, consisting of a long handle with a shorter stick attached with a short piece of chain, thong or similar material.
A weapon which has the (usually spherical) striking part attached to the handle with a flexible joint such as a chain.
His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn
That ten day-labourers could not end; * 1816 — *: Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail * 1842 — *: On him alone the curse of Cain
Fell, like a flail on the garnered grain,
And struck him to the earth! * 1879 — , ch V *: If the farmer must use the spade because he has not capital enough for a plough, the sickle instead of the reaping machine, the flail instead of the thresher... To beat using a flail or similar implement.
To wave or swing vigorously
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* 1937 , ,
To thresh.
To move like a flail.
(Australia, New Zealand, informal) A fight, an argument.
* 1996 , , Glamour and the Sea , Victoria University Press, New Zealand,
* 2006 , Pip Wilson, Faces in the Street: Louisa and Henry Lawson and the Castlereagh Street Push ,
* 2004 , Jay Verney, Percussion , University of Queensland Press,
* 2008 , Anna Haebich, Spinning the Dream: Assimilation in Australia 1950-1970 , Fremantle Press,
(Australia, informal) To fight; to argue.
* 1916 , , The Call of Stoush'', ''The Moods of Ginger Mick , 2009, Sydney University Press,
* 1999 , Marion Halligan, Marlene Mathews, A Sporting Nation: Celebrating Australia?s Sporting Life ,
* 2008 , Matthew Kidman, Alex Feher, Master CEOs: Secrets of Australia?s Leading CEOs , 2012,
Flail is a related term of stoush.
As nouns the difference between flail and stoush
is that flail is a tool used for threshing, consisting of a long handle with a shorter stick attached with a short piece of chain, thong or similar material while stoush is (australia|new zealand|informal) a fight, an argument.As verbs the difference between flail and stoush
is that flail is to beat using a flail or similar implement while stoush is (australia|informal) to fight; to argue.flail
English
Noun
(en noun)Quotations
* 1631 — *: When in one night, ere glimpse of morn,His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn
That ten day-labourers could not end; * 1816 — *: Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail * 1842 — *: On him alone the curse of Cain
Fell, like a flail on the garnered grain,
And struck him to the earth! * 1879 — , ch V *: If the farmer must use the spade because he has not capital enough for a plough, the sickle instead of the reaping machine, the flail instead of the thresher...
Coordinate terms
*(weapon) nunchakuVerb
(en verb)- He stopped in his tracks – then, flailing his arms wildly in the air, began to stagger backwards.
- He was flailing wildly, but didn't land a blow.
Synonyms
* thrashSee also
* (wikipedia "flail") *stoush
English
Noun
(stoushes)page 166,
- Barry explained that his friend wasn?t drunk, he?d been in a stoush , had a ding on his head and was covered in money.
page 200,
- Now Henry knows dead cert he?s in for a stoush , but Snake-hips says he should go with him, and out on Nymagee-street Henry Lawson refuses a twenty-pound note, and the two men shake and Henry accepts the next billiards game, doubles with Snake-hips (who plays even worse than Henry), the Minister for Public Instruction, and the Austrian chappie.
page 151,
- She and Anna used to reproduce Veronica?s stoushes with Pat, conducted with gusto over the fence but never brought into the confining space of either house where they might smoulder and flare.
page 63,
- Melbourne almost lost the event when union go-slow tactics and a stoush over federal and state funding responsibilities seriously delayed work on the construction of the Olympic Stadium and Village.
Verb
page 15,
- Wot price ole Ginger Mick? ?E?s done a break— / Gone to the flamin? war to stoush the foe.
page 121,
- The two business moguls have stoushed over rights to televise rugby union, whose marketability has greatly risen since institution of the World Cup in 1987.
unnumbered page,
- There was a lot of corporate stoushing and things said that people didn?t like.
