Talk:Flail (tool)

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On 13 December 2024, it was proposed that this article be moved from Flail to Flail (tool). The result of the discussion was moved.

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Shouldn't this be categorized in Category:Farming tools also? --217.209.114.48 (talk) 22:20, 23 February 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Old, uncited claim

I removed this, as it had been tagged with "citation needed" since 2010: " The French Revolution was mostly fought with agricultural tools." I'm leaving it here in case it can be sourced someday. A. Parrot (talk) 19:00, 6 February 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Making hay in a canoe

... one stick is held and swung, causing the other (the swipple) to strike a pile of grain, loosening the husks.

Okay, so the stalks are first harvested, then piled and finally thrashed.

But in many places, such as Minnesota, wild rice can only be harvested legally using manual means, specifically through the use of a canoe and a flail that is made of smooth, round wood no more than 30 inches long.

Is the canoeist standing or sitting? Is the rice standing or piled?

More detail on how much is piled, and how the grains is recovered afterward, etc. would greatly help to dispel these conflicting mental images. — MaxEnt 20:43, 28 December 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Requested move 13 December 2024

The following is a closed discussion of a requested move. Please do not modify it. Subsequent comments should be made in a new section on the talk page. Editors desiring to contest the closing decision should consider a move review after discussing it on the closer's talk page. No further edits should be made to this discussion.

The result of the move request was: moved. Pages moved to their respective destination titles. If anyone is interested in proposing that Flail (weapon) is the WP:PRIMARYTOPIC, they are welcome to file an RM on that page. (non-admin closure) cyberdog958^Talk 21:59, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Flail → Flail (tool)
Flail (disambiguation) → Flail

– There doesn't seem to be a primary topic here, though, if anything, the weapon is the primary topic. I have no qualms with either this or moving the weapon to primary instead, but, either way, the tool clearly should not be here. ᴢxᴄᴠʙɴᴍ (ᴛ) 15:31, 13 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Support the weapon has 8,360 views compared with only 2,714[[1]] for the tool. Crouch, Swale (talk) 23:03, 15 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Agreed, disambiguate it, as people might also be looking up the verb of flailing, wikt:flail, or any of a number of derived usages like flail chest and indeed mine flail that's already listed. --Joy (talk) 14:38, 17 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. -- Necrothesp (talk) 16:06, 18 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]
Support per nom. Theparties (talk) 17:18, 20 December 2024 (UTC)[reply]

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