Flay vs Flailed – What’s the difference?

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Flay vs Flailed - What's the difference?
As verbs the difference between flay and flailed is that flay is to cause to fly; put to flight; drive off (by frightening) or flay can be to strip skin off while flailed is (flail).

As a noun flay is a fright; a scare.

flay

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) flayen, flaien, fleien, from (etyl) .

Alternative forms

* (l) (Yorkshire)
* (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) (Scotland)

Verb

(en verb )

  • To cause to fly; put to flight; drive off (by frightening).
  • To frighten; scare; terrify.
  • To be fear-stricken.
    • Derived terms

    * (l)

    Noun

    (en noun )

  • A fright; a scare.
  • Fear; a source of fear; a formidable matter; a fearsome or repellent-looking individual.
    • Derived terms

    * (l)

    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) flean from (etyl) .

    Verb

  • to strip skin off
  • to lash
    • Synonyms

    * (remove the skin of) fleece, flense, skin

    Anagrams

    *

    flailed

    English

    Verb

    (head)

  • (flail)


    • flail

    English

    Noun

    (en noun )

  • A tool used for threshing, consisting of a long handle with a shorter stick attached with a short piece of chain, thong or similar material.
  • A weapon which has the (usually spherical) striking part attached to the handle with a flexible joint such as a chain.
    • Quotations

    * 1631 —
    *: When in one night, ere glimpse of morn,
    His shadowy flail hath threshed the corn
    That ten day-labourers could not end;
    * 1816 —
    *: Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail,
    Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher’s flail
    * 1842 —
    *: On him alone the curse of Cain
    Fell, like a flail on the garnered grain,
    And struck him to the earth!
    * 1879 — , ch V
    *: 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…

    Coordinate terms

    *(weapon) nunchaku

    Verb

    (en verb )

  • To beat using a flail or similar implement.
  • To wave or swing vigorously
  • *
  • * 1937 , ,
    • He stopped in his tracks – then, flailing his arms wildly in the air, began to stagger backwards.
  • To thresh.
  • To move like a flail.
    • He was flailing wildly, but didn’t land a blow.

    Synonyms

    * thrash

    See also

    * (wikipedia “flail” )
    *

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