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FLAIL (from Lat. flagellum, a whip or scourge, but used in the Vulgate in the sense of " flail "; the word appears in Dutch vegel, Ger. Flegel, and Fr. Pau)

This article appears in Volume V10, Page 468 of the Encyclopedia Britannica.

Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: FLA-FRA
FLAIL (from Lat. flagellum, a whip or scourge, but used in the Vulgate in the sense of " flail "; the word appears in Dutch vegel, Ger. Flegel, and Fr. Pau) , a farm hand-implement formerly used for threshing corn. It consists of a short thick
club
  called a " Swingle " or " swipple " attached by a rope or
leather
  thong to a wooden handle in such a manner as to enable it to
swing
  freely. The " flail " was a weapon used for military purposes in the middle ages. It was made in the same way as a threshing-flail but much stronger and furnished with
iron
  spikes. It also took the form of a
chain
  with a spiked
iron
  ball at one end swinging free on a wooden or iron handle. This weapon was known as the " morning
star
  " or holy water sprinkler." During the panic over the Popish
plot
  in England from 1678 to 1681, clubs, known as "
Protestant
  flails," were carried by alarmed Protestants (see GREEN RIBBON
CLUB
 ).


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