flail: [OE] Flail is a distant relative of flagellation [15]. Both go back ultimately to Latin flagrum ‘whip’. This had a diminutive form flagellum, which in prehistoric times was borrowed into West Germanic as *flagil-. It is assumed that Old English inherited it as *flegil (although this is not actually recorded), which, reinforced in Middle English times by the related Old French flaiel, produced modern English flail. Flagellation comes from the derived Latin verb flagellāre ‘whip’. => flagellation
flail (n.)
implement for threshing grain, c. 1100, perhaps from an unrecorded Old English *flegel, which, if it existed, probably is from West Germanic *flagil (cognates: Middle Dutch and Low German vlegel, Old High German flegel, German flegel), a West Germanic borrowing of Late Latin flagellum "winnowing tool, flail," in classical Latin "a whip" (see flagellum).
flail (v.)
mid-15c., "to whip, scourge," from flail (n.). Sense of "to move like a flail" is from 1873. Related: Flailed; flailing.
实用例句
1. No fence against flail.
飞来横祸不胜防.
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2. To observable clinical effect about treatment of flail chest by multiporous lucite plate external fixation device.
目的:观察多孔有机玻璃板外固定器治疗连枷胸的临床效果.
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3. Flail Elephant's, what is the purpose of this unit in the Indian army?
枷锁象, 这兵对印度军队有啥特别的目的在 吗 ?
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4. Knight assigned to guard Heigm Castle . Wields a Flame Flail . Was killed by and his battalion.
守卫王都海姆正门的骑士,持有火焰链枷. 死于德尼姆军的攻击下.
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5. This is an additional head which may be added to Flail of Ages + 3.
