What is "flailed"

Usage examples of "flailed".

She realized she was falling, and her arms flailed wildly in the air before she hit the water with a loud splash.

And when the grain was flailed they winnowed it, casting it up from great flat bamboo baskets into the wind and catching the good grain as it fell, and the chaff blew away in a cloud with the wind.

He set the two little boys to sifting the dust of the threshing floor between their fingers after he and the woman had flailed the bean vines, and he shelled the corn upon the floor in the middle room, watching sharply every grain that flew wide.

Wang Lung was furious and he beat the locusts and trampled on them and his men flailed them with flails and the locusts fell into the fires that were kindled and they floated dead upon the waters of the moats that were dug.

He stared emptily and flailed his oversize hands in the air in rough, concentric circles.

Then he stood there and watched, watched as the Traitor, cold to the core of his heart, flailed and crumpled to the floor.

Sensing the touch, Magichunger flailed the sword backhand, even as he scrambled by.

But the sheepherder merely chucked afl these iridescent artifacts into a great gleaming pile and flailed away some more with his shovel.