Usually means: Struggled or waved about wildly.
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  1. flailed: Merriam-Webster
  2. flailed: Collins English Dictionary
  3. flailed: Vocabulary.com
  4. flailed: Wordnik
  5. flailed: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  6. flailed: Wiktionary
  7. flailed: Dictionary.com
  8. flailed: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  9. flailed: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. flailed: Legal dictionary

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  1. flailed: Encyclopedia

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Definitions from Wiktionary (flail)

noun:  A tool used for threshing, consisting of a long handle (handstock) with a shorter stick (swipple or swingle) attached with a short piece of chain, thong or similar material.
noun:  A weapon which has the (usually spherical) striking part attached to the handle with a flexible joint such as a chain.
verb:  (transitive) To beat using a flail or similar implement.
verb:  (transitive) To wave or swing vigorously
verb:  (transitive) To thresh.
verb:  (intransitive) To move like a flail.
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