Flaily

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Acting like a flail; flailing.

    "At once all furrows plow, the strugling streams O're all the main gape wide, boile foamie streams, With flaly-oares and slicing foredecks fierce, Which through the bustling billows proudly pierce."

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"At once all furrows plow, the strugling streams O're all the main gape wide, boile foamie streams, With flaly-oares and slicing foredecks fierce, Which through the bustling billows proudly pierce."

Etymology

From flail + -y.

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