Flail is valid Scrabble Word

Is flail a scrabble word?
Official Scrabble Players Dictionary YES
Official Tournament and Club Word List YES
Collins Scrabble Words YES
Is flail valid Words with Friends?
Words with Friends YES

5 letters word
8 points in Scrabble
10 points in WWF

Definitions for FLAIL in dictionary:

VERB:

NOUN:

a threshing tool consisting of a wooden staff with a short heavy stick swinging from it.
a device similar to a flail, used as a weapon or for flogging.

a machine having a similar action to a flail, used for threshing or slashing
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.
an implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end; used in manual threshing
tool formerly used for threshing grain by hand

OTHER DEFINITIONS:

to swing freely

Words related to FLAIL

flailed11 flailing12 flails9 threshel14

Words that contain FLAIL

flails9 flailed11 flailing12

How to use FLAIL in a sentence

I saw now to my great comfort that the man was beside himself with fury, and was swinging his arms wildly like a flail.
The viands, my son, scattered from his knife over the board, like chaff before the flail.
Pastoureau came sailing to the rescue with arms like a flail.
Its old French and American families have been threshed by the flail of war, like grain on a floor.
Patrick had been Roman and Christian, had now under the iron flail of its Saxon conquerors lapsed back into Paganism.
The grain is cut with a sickle and threshed with a flail on the barn floor, as in Scripture times.
The apparition, however, gave me a shock, for the antique flail is still the instrument commonly used for threshing in the southern provinces of France.
In colonial times the work was mostly done by hand, first the flail for threshing, then the heavy fat-pine pestle and mortar for breaking off the husk.
Joe had caught up the chair to which he had been bound, and wielded it like a flail, with every swing of it breaking a head or snapping an arm.
The army of the iron flail quickly put an end to all such hopes.

Bulger, brawny warrior of the iron hook, swung his musket like a flail, every now and again shooting forth his more sinister weapon with terrible effect.
In most parts of Europe the flail is now in use, but in England begins to be superseded by the powerful and expeditious but complicated threshing machine.
Cadillac scowled and beat his palm upon his knee as a flail beats grain, and I knew he needed no words of mine.
I forgot to mention that he hung his flail behind the door when he had done with it.
And, swinging it like a fiercely driven flail, he rushed into the crowd of savages, scattering them like chaff in a gale.
The scarlet blot which sprang for his throat was met with the flail of the net.
Flail used every method in her power to render her as comfortable as possible.
First is a rugged, sun-browned form, carrying a flail.
Thus the northern end of the flail was held and movement along the entire line was slowed down or suspended.
The flail, swinging from Metz to Belgium, was falling with crushing effect along the entire front, the movement being very rapid at the western but slow at the eastern end.
There I saw a man thrashing, and as he beat the corn with his flail he made a great noise.
He preached with fury, with passion, an iron man beating with a flail upon the souls of his congregation.
The flail thumped on india-rubber, and as often as not the rubber slept.
Then he would be roused by an exasperated driver, who jerked cruelly on the lines and used his whip as if it had been a flail.
The sound of the flail is dying out of the land, and soon will be heard no more.
Next day he was thrashing corn in the barn and something upset him and pitched him head foremost across the flail.
He rose, and three times he was pitched like that across the flail, so he gave up and went home.
They seem to be only heads, from which legs and arms flail out grotesquely.
Sometimes there is the noise of one flail only, but presently others have joined in on all sides.
This great impediment being removed, one formidable difficulty still remained in the way of the rice planters, and that was the threshing of the crop by flail.
Instead of the flail, we take the sheaf in the hand, and whip it across a bench in a close room until the rice leaves the straw.
He wielded the flail, beat, bruised, and broke everything about him as a monkey might have done.

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