flail

Betekenis (Engels)

Noun

1. A tool used for threshing, consisting of a long handle (handstock) with a shorter stick (swipple or swingle) attached with a short piece of chain, thong or similar material.
2. A weapon which has the (usually spherical) striking part attached to the handle with a flexible joint such as a chain.
3. (often, plural) Part of a rotating device, often used for cutting vegetation.

Verb

1. (transitive) To beat using a flail or similar implement.
2. (transitive) To wave or swing vigorously
3. (transitive) To thresh.
4. (intransitive) To move like a flail.

Sinonieme

thresh

bludgeon

thrash

struggle

club

lam

throes

scourge

hammer

🔨

lather

mallet

maul

pestle

plague

planks

rammer

strike

swingle

switch

whip

writhe

printing plate

thrash about

threshingstick

corn thresher

threshing stick

sweeping gear

birch

trosh

buff

calamity

cowhide

death throes

flagellate

jerk

knock about

lash

Vertalings

fléau

Flegel

Dreschflegel

mangual

correggiato

vlegel

dorsvlegel

mayal

se débattre

pertica trituaria

dorsen

dreschen

scrollare

rosser

Uitgespreek as (IPA)

/fleɪl/

Etimologie (Engels)

Geërf van Middle English: flayle

Geërf van Old English: fligel

Verwante met Skots: flail

Verwante met Fries: fleil

Verwante met Nederlands: vlegel

Verwante met Duits: Flegel

Verwante met Old Norse: flaga

Verwante met Litaus: plàkti

Verwante met Antieke Grieks: πληγνύναι

Verwante met Latyn: plangō

Verwante met Old Norse: blekkja

Verwante met Old French: flael

Verwante met Walloon: flayea

Verwante met Italiaans: flagello

In summary

From Middle English flayle, from earlier fleil, fleyl, fleȝȝl, from Old English fligel, *flegel (“flail”), from Proto-West Germanic *flagil, of uncertain origin. Cognate with Scots flail (“a thresher's flail”), West Frisian fleil, flaaiel (“flail”), Dutch vlegel (“flail”), German Flegel (“flail”). Possibly a native Germanic word from Proto-Germanic *flagilaz (“whip”), from Proto-Germanic *flag-, *flah- (“to whip, beat”), from Proto-Indo-European *pleh₂k- (“to beat, hit, strike; weep”); compare Old Norse flaga (“sudden attack, bout”), Lithuanian plàkti (“to whip, lash, flog”), Ancient Greek πληγνύναι (plēgnúnai, “strike, hit, encounter”), Latin plangō (“lament”, i.e. “beat one's breast”) + Proto-Germanic *-ilaz (instrumental suffix). If so, related also to English flag, flack, flacker.
Alternatively, Proto-West Germanic *flagil may be an early borrowing of Latin flagellum (“winnowing tool, thresher”), diminutive of flagrum (“scourge, whip”), from Proto-Indo-European *bʰlag-, *bʰlaǵ- (“to beat”); compare Old Norse blekkja (“to beat, mistreat”). Compare also Old French flael (“flail”), Walloon flayea (“flail”) (locally pronounced "flai"), Italian flagello (“scourge, whip, plague”).