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flail

[flāl]

(agriculture)

A manual device for threshing consisting of a long wooden handle with a free-swinging stick attached to the end.

The following article is from The Great Soviet Encyclopedia (1979). It might be outdated or ideologically biased.

Flail

a primitive agricultural implement for threshing grain, consisting of a wooden handle up to 2 m long and a short (up to 0.8 m) beater connected by a rawhide strap.

flail

A device for breaking or crushing material by means of one or more hammers which are hinged or pivoted about a rotating axle.

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Mechanical ventilatory support is not always mandatory for the treatment of flail chest (12); its need depends on the severity of ARF and existing co-morbidities, such as pulmonary contusion and post-traumatic ALL In 1975, Trinkle et al.

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An original technique for surgical stabilisation of traumatic flail chest.

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One of Durham's officers, in his landing craft, said: "Away to the east, about 800 yards from where our craft was due to beach, I could see a Sherman tank fitted with flails crashing its way through a minefield.

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Delimbing with a chain flail and a knuckleboom loader.

PRODUCTION AND COSTS OF THE CHAMBERS DELIMBINATOR IN FIRST THINNING OF PINE PLANTATIONS

They determined the incidence of sudden death in a cohort of 348 patients who were managed conservatively after echocardiographic diagnosis of flail mitral leaflets between 1980 and 1994 (J.

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Stubble height was greater in Flail 3X and Bale treatments (mean = 5.8 cm) than in Rake and Vacuum treatments (mean = 4.1 cm).

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OPERATORS, THE M160 LIGHT FLAIL ROBOTIC SYSTEM HAS UNIQUE VEHICLE CHARACTERISTIC YOU NEED TO KEEP IN MIND WHILE CLEARING ANTI-PERSONNEL MINES FROM FIELDS, ROADS AND URBAN AREAS.

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As the owner of Earth Tools, the BCS dealer mentioned in the article, I must point out a mixup between the features of two attachments we offer, the brush mower and the flail mower.

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Of the three circuit courts that have ruled on this issue (discussed below), two agreed with the Tax Court, but one allowed a flail deduction for such fees.

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This lightweight flail for clearing shallow-buried or surface-laid AP mines is the result of extensive research and development projects related to soil/machine interactions and accumulated experience in field machinery for mine breaching and cleaning.

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Writes The Washington Post's Andrew Beyer, "he put Kayak II under visible restraint and didn't use his whip, while [Seabiscuit's jockey] Pollard continued to flail Seabiscuit." Despite the radical difference in effort by the two riders, Seabiscuit beat Kayak II by only a half-length.