Threshing tool
The crossword clue "Threshing tool" is answered by FLAIL, a 5-letter entry. Used 14 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1962. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
The answer
FLAIL
5 letters. See every clue for this answer on the FLAIL answer page.
Used 14 times across 11 distinct years; most recently in 2023; first recorded in 1962. It appears in 8 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
Other clues for FLAIL
Every other clue in this collection answered by FLAIL, most used first.
- Swing wildly - used 33 times, most recently in 2026
- Thrash about - used 27 times, most recently in 2026
- Thrash - used 17 times, most recently in 2025
- Wave wildly - used 7 times, most recently in 2022
Related clues
Clues in this collection of the same answer length that share a word with this clue, or match its answer pattern when no word is shared. Most used first.
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