flail

Significado (Inglés)

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.

Conceptos

mayal

trillo

mangual

desgranar

debatirse

revolcarse

maza

sacudirse

golpeador de cadenas

objeto para golpear

club

agitar violentamente

martillo

🔨

plaga

sacudir

trillar

agitarse

Sinónimos

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

Traducciones

fléau

Flegel

Dreschflegel

mangual

dorsvlegel

vlegel

correggiato

se débattre

pertica trituaria

dreschen

dorsen

scrollare

rosser

agonie

Pronunciado como (IPA)

/fleɪl/

Etimología (Inglés)

Heredado de inglés medio: flayle

Heredado de inglés antiguo: fligel

Cognado con escocés: flail

Cognado con frisón occidental: fleil

Cognado con neerlandés: vlegel

Cognado con alemán: Flegel

Cognado con nórdico antiguo: flaga

Cognado con lituano: plàkti

Cognado con griego antiguo: πληγνύναι

Cognado con latín: plangō

Cognado con nórdico antiguo: blekkja

Cognado con francés antiguo: flael

Cognado con valón: flayea

Cognado con italiano: 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”).