Flail

A flail is a weapon.

Don't just flail around aimlessly. You need a plan.

Our eyes may bulge, our arms may flail but that does not necessarily mean that there is any greater lack of freedom here than there is anywhere else.

When in one night, ere glimpse of morn, His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn That ten day-labourers could not end;

Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail, Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail

On him alone the curse of Cain Fell, like a flail on the garnered grain, And struck him to the earth!

If the farmer must use the spade because he has not capital enough for a plough, the sickle instead of the reaping machine, the flail instead of the thresher...

The carriage washing plant uses four pairs of rotating rag flails and will be capable of dealing with the whole of the diesel units as well as steam stock used for main-line trains.

Tangling with Ziv, Cameron caught him with a flailing elbow, causing the Israeli defender to go down a little easily. However, the referee was in no doubt, much to the displeasure of the home fans.

He stopped in his tracks – then, flailing his arms wildly in the air, began to stagger backwards.