Flails [verb]

Even if poverty were gone, the flail could still beat hard enough upon the grain and chaff of humanity.

The farmer caught up a huge flail with which he was wont to thresh out his oats.

Raoul, whose flail had made even De Carnac give way, turned to follow, but Richard was on him.

Arms some had, but arms none used; for Trenchefer dashed them down as the flail smites, ere one could raise or draw.

He struck a poor man for a trifling word, with a flail, which proved fatal to the unoffending object.

Adam and Lassie drove the cows over it leisurely, and between times Adam experimented on a flail.

To thresh grain upon the barn floor with a flail day after day needs much physical endurance.

May luck attend the milking-pail, Yule logs and cakes in plenty be, May each blow of the thrashing-flail Produce good frumenty.

All at once at some little distance they heard a continuous, rapid sound, as if something was beating the earth with a flail.

One got a slice of a scythe, another a whack of a flail, a third a rap of a spade, that made him look nine ways at wanst.