fleyl

Middle English

Alternative forms

• flaell, flayl, flayle, flayll, fleel, fleȝȝl, fleil, fleyle

Etymology

From Old English *flegel, fligel, from Proto-West Germanic *flagil, probably from Latin flagellum. Possibly a doublet of frayel.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flɛi̯l/

Noun

fleyl (plural fleyles)

1. A flail (tool for threshing grain)
2. A whip or lash (flexible blunt weapon)
3. (rare) A rotating bar used to secure a gate.

Descendants

• English: flail (dialectal frail)
• Scots: flail
• Yola: vleal

References

• “fleil, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.