An instrument for threshing or beating grain from the ear by hand, consisting of a wooden staff or handle, at the end of which a stouter and shorter pole or club, called a swipe, is so hung as to swing freely.
An ancient military weapon, like the common flail, often having the striking part armed with rows of spikes, or loaded.
Universal tool for threshing. Used to separate the grain or seed from the plant stalk (straw).
A metal flange or tine attached to a rotating shaft for moving, mixing and aerating leaves.
an implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end; used in manual threshing
move like a flail; thresh about; "Her arms were flailing"
a ball and chain on the end of a stick, that can easly go around shield or the defense
a chain with a heavy object attached to it
a further variation from the club in that its head is attached to the pole with a chain
a handle with a few links of chain attaching it to straight length of metal
a medieval weapon made of a spiked metal ball attached by a single chain to a handle
Implement used by early settlers to loosen the grain kernels from the stems the flail has long wooden handles with a shorter piece attached to its end by a leather strap. The thresher raised the handle on high and brought down horizontally the short flail to hit hard the sheaves lying on the threshing floor.
a jointed weapon consisting of a spiked, flanged or knobbed steel bludgeon joined by a chain to a short wood or steel haft. Use of the large two-handed flail continued to be taught in fight schools into the 17th century. It was derived from the simple agricultural flail, still used in some parts of the world today.
Large foot soldier's weapon used in Europe; normally made of wood and reinforced with metal bands; some were fitted with hooks to keep the head from swinging around while marching.
The flail is a medieval weapon made of one (or more) weights attached to a handle with a hinge or chain. There is some disagreement over the names for this weapon; the terms "morning star," and even "mace" are variously applied, though these are used to describe other weapons, which are very different in usage from a weapon with a hinge or chain, commonly used in Europe from the 13th century to the 15th century. In construction, the "morning star" and flail have similar, if not identical, spiked heads.
A flail is an agricultural tool used for threshing, to separate grains from their husks.