- act of hitting someone
- Beat
- Beat soundly
- Beat the seeds out of a grain crop
- Defeat totally
- Flail
- Flail (about)
- Batter
- Flail
- Punch repeatedly
- Strike repeatedly
- Same as Pommel.
- Flail (about)
- To separate wheat, etc.
- To beat out grain from, as straw or husks; to beat the
straw or husk of (grain) with a flail; to beat off, as the kernels of
grain; as, to thrash wheat, rye, or oats; to thrash over the old straw.
- To beat soundly, as with a stick or whip; to drub.
- To practice thrashing grain or the like; to perform the
business of beating grain from straw; as, a man who thrashes well.
- Hence, to labor; to toil; also, to move violently.
- Same as Thrash.