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1.
fleil
n.
25 quotations in 3 senses
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(a) Instrument used for threshing grain, a flail; (b)
cap of a fleil, fleil cap
, one of the bands of wood or leather (fastened about the end of the flail staff or the end of the swingle) through which…
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