flail

Object

• limb: He is little changed from his Roses days - combat trousers, Adidas trainers, concave cheeks, flailing simian limbs.
• arm: With flailing arms we swam ashore, some of us dead.
• elbow: A few minutes later the ref then missed a flailing elbow that caught Prince in the face.
• hedge: While the NFU advise farmers not to flail hedges between March and September.
• leg: There was nowhere for Little Matter to go, tripped by the flailing legs of the stricken outsider, Little Matter was brought down.
• hand: The ball passes his flailing hands by mere centimeters.

Converse of object

• use: STRONG POINTS Good value for money, but Muratori uses tough, top quality hammer flails.

Modifies a noun

• mower: Photo: Phil Wheeler The railroad's flail mower trims the hedge adjacent to the curved siding at Wharf.
• topper: Has inter-row hoe, flail topper and some hand tools Business: farming partnership only 1 partner working.
• throttle: Start flail throttle would go down into early retirement at the airline.
• arm: Training of our own permanent way staff in the use of chain saws and a rail mounted flail arm also took place this month.
• machine: However in some countries transporting a large flail machine over rickety bridges is impossible so the solutions have to be appropriate.
• unit: Motorists are asked to pass the tractor and flail units with due care and consideration.

Modifying Another Word

• wildly: Action Men with wildly flailing limbs, thrown helplessly about at terrifying velocity.
• about: Flailing about in an attempt to swim he hit his head on something hard.
• away: By morning he is free of all blankets, happily flailing away with all four unrestrained limbs.
• just: The boxing, for instance, is not just flailing around.

Noun used with modifier

• start: Start flail throttle would go down into early retirement at the airline.

Preposition: in

• air: She tumbled down the stairs like a rag doll, her arms and legs flailing helplessly in the air.

Followed by an intransitive particle

• around: One, with an octopus flailing around at the foot of the picture, draws directly on her early life.