Term: flail: an implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end; used in manual threshing
Candidate hypernym: implement: instrumentation (a piece of equipment or tool) used to effect an end → 1
Candidate hypernym: papyrus: paper made from the papyrus plant by cutting it in strips and pressing it flat; used by ancient Egyptians and Greeks and Romans → 0
Candidate hypernym: apparition: something existing in perception only → 0
Candidate hypernym: hireling: a person who works only for money → 0
Candidate hypernym: golden section: the proportional relation between two divisions of line or two dimension of a plane figure such that short : long :: long : (short + long) → 0
Candidate hypernym: brittleness: firm but easily broken → 0
Candidate hypernym: neoplatonism: a system of philosophical and theological doctrines composed of elements of Platonism and Aristotelianism and oriental mysticism; its most distinctive doctrine holds that the first principle and source of reality transcends being and thought and is naturally unknowable → 0
Candidate hypernym: absolute: something that is conceived or that exists independently and not in relation to other things; something that does not depend on anything else and is beyond human control; something that is not relative → 0
Candidate hypernym: main line: the principal route of a transportation system → 0
Candidate hypernym: maltese: a term applied indiscriminately in the United States to any short-haired bluish-grey cat → 0
Candidate hypernym: genetics: the branch of biology that studies heredity and variation in organisms → 0