Thwack vs Flail - What's the difference?
thwack | flail | Related terms |
The act of thwacking; a strike or blow, especially with a flat implement.
A heavy slapping sound.
To whack or hit with a flat implement.
* Washington Irving
To beat.
To fill to overflow.
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.
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)Verb
(en verb)- a distant thwacking sound
- (Stanyhurst)
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.
