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 Translation for 'flail' from English to Icelandic
NOUN   a flail | flails
VERB   to flail | flailed | flailed
flailing | flails
SYNO to flail | to lam | to thrash | ...
þreskja (e-ð)to flail (sth.)
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Translation for 'flail' from English to Icelandic

to flail (sth.)
að þreskja (e-ð)
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Usage Examples English
  • Flail mowers may also be used in a more or less upright position for trimming the sides of hedges.
  • When in service, the vehicle is driven by hydraulic transmission which is also using the flail and lifting or lowering an armoured-steel-made deflector shield between the flail and vehicle.
  • The only extant pharaonic examples of both the crook and flail come from the Tomb of Tutankhamun.
  • The scourge, or flail, and the crook are the two symbols of power and domination depicted in the hands of Osiris in Egyptian monuments.
  • Conditioners come in three main types: rubber-roller conditioners, steel-roller, and flail.

  • In 2006, Claas presented a Cougar 1400 fitted with five flail mowers (mulching units) instead of disc mowers.
  • The title of the song "Thresher's Flail" is a reference to the Samuel Taylor Coleridge poem "Kubla Khan": "Huge fragments vaulted like rebounding hail/Or chaffy grain beneath the thresher's flail".
  • An innovation was the addition of cutters to the rotor that cut barbed wire and stopped the flail from becoming tangled.
  • After he graduated General Motors Institute in Flint, Michigan he designed, manufactured and sold special flails for flail mowers and eventually started his own mowing company.
  • Asymmetric prolapse is further subdivided into flail and non-flail.

  • Crook and flail: At times, Carter has been able to use the crook and flail of the sun god Ra.
  • The flail later was closely related to the "heqa"-scepter (the crook and flail), but in early representations the king was also depicted solely with the flail, as shown in a late pre-dynastic knife handle that is now in the Metropolitan museum, and on the Narmer Macehead.
  • Plastic or metal flails can be used for cutting stems too large for a line head but not requiring a blade.
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