Thwack is a related term of flail.
As nouns the difference between thwack and flail
is that
thwack is the act of thwacking; a strike or blow, especially with a flat implement while
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.
As verbs the difference between thwack and flail
is that
thwack is to whack or hit with a flat implement while
flail is to beat using a flail or similar implement.
thwack English
Noun
( en noun)
The act of thwacking; a strike or blow, especially with a flat implement.
A heavy slapping sound.
Verb
( en verb)
To whack or hit with a flat implement.
* Washington Irving
- a distant thwacking sound
To beat.
To fill to overflow.
- (Stanyhurst)
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flail English
Noun
( en noun)
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.
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) nunchaku
Verb
( en verb)
To beat using a flail or similar implement.
To wave or swing vigorously
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* 1937 , ,
- He stopped in his tracks – then, flailing his arms wildly in the air, began to stagger backwards.
To thresh.
To move like a flail.
- He was flailing wildly, but didn't land a blow.
Synonyms
* thrash
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