Flail (tool)

Flail
  • Top left: Example of a flail (Northern Scandinavia): handle (left) and swingle (right)
  • Top right: French peasants threshing with flails c. 1270
  • Bottom left: Flail being used for threshing
  • Bottom right: Threshing with flail, Västergötland, Sweden (1903)

A flail is an agricultural hand tool used for threshing, the process of separating grains from their husks. It can also be used for military purposes being made in the same way as a threshing-flail but much stronger and furnished with iron spikes.

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