flail

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n. 连枷 v. 用连枷打, 打

发音

US /fleɪl/
AU /fleɪl/
其它 /fɹeɪl/

词形变化

flails 复数 flails flailed flailing flails 三单 flailing 现在分词 flailed 过去式 flailed 过去分词

教材释义与例句

名词

连枷（打谷物用的工具）

动词

打；用连枷打

释义与例句

n.
  1. 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.

    连枷

    枷

    耞

  2. 2.

    A weapon which has the (usually spherical) striking part attached to the handle with a flexible joint such as a chain.

    连枷

  3. 3.

    Part of a rotating device, often used for cutting vegetation.

v.
  1. 1.

    To beat using a flail or similar implement.

    及物
  2. 2.

    To wave or swing vigorously

    及物
  3. 3.

    To thresh.

    及物
  4. 4.

    To move like a flail.

    不及物

    He was flailing wildly, but didn't land a blow.

词汇关系

名词

上位词 1

implement
动词

同义词 3

lam thrash thresh

上位词 4

beat flap work over beat up

近义相关 6

cream bat lick thrash clobber drub

相关短语

flail about flail chest 连枷胸 flail tank flail tanks mine flail 遥控地雷连枷

词源

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”).

来源：wiktionary