Flail

(noun.) an implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end; used in manual threshing.

(verb.) move like a flail; thresh about; 'Her arms were flailing'.

编辑:默里

• The threshing-floor still resounds to the flail as the grain is beaten from the heads of the stalks. 威廉·亨利·杜利特. 世纪发明.
• They were armed with flails such as are used to beat out the grain and they were a good flail's length apart. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• But I do not think one blow with this will kill a man,' and he held his flail in both hands and looked at it with doubt. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Then I saw a man three men down from where I was standing and his face was working and he was biting his lips and his hands were white on his flail. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Separating rice grains by flailing. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科学通论.
• And in my life never do I wish to see such a scene as the flailing to death in the plaza on the top of the cliff above the river. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Living was an earthen jar of water in the dust of the threshing with the grain flailed out and the chaff blowing. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• We have his flails. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• All did not have flails, as enough flails could not be obtained. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• But most had flails obtained from the store of Don Guillermo Martin, who was a fascist and sold all sorts of agricultural implements. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• They were armed with flails such as are used to beat out the grain and they were a good flail's length apart. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• Pablo had them beaten to death with flails and thrown from the top of the cliff into the river. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.

手打:威尔