To beat or flog, especially for extracting the fibres from flax stalks; to scutch.
To dangle; to wave hanging.
The swinging part of a flail, especially that which is used on the grain in threshing; the swiple.
An implement used to separate the fibres of flax by beating them; a scutch.
To separate the grain from the straw or husks (chaff) by mechanical beating, with a flail or machinery.
To beat soundly, usually with some tool such as a stick or whip; to drub.
To violently toss the limbs about.