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{"id": "flail", "metadata": {"operation": "retrieve", "provider": "Oxford University Press", "schema": "RetrieveEntry"}, "results": [{"id": "flail", "language": "en-gb", "lexicalEntries": [{"entries": [{"etymologies": ["Old English, of West Germanic origin, based on Latin flagellum \u2018whip\u2019 (see flagellum); probably influenced in Middle English by Old French flaiel or Dutch vlegel"], "pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/flail_gb_1.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "fle\u026al"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["a threshing tool consisting of a wooden staff with a short heavy stick swinging from it."], "domainClasses": [{"id": "farming", "text": "Farming"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0368550.005", "semanticClasses": [{"id": "implement", "text": "Implement"}], "shortDefinitions": ["threshing tool"], "subsenses": [{"definitions": ["a device similar to a flail, used as a weapon or for flogging."], "domainClasses": [{"id": "weapons", "text": "Weapons"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0368550.008", "semanticClasses": [{"id": "weapon", "text": "Weapon"}], "shortDefinitions": ["similar device used as weapon"]}, {"definitions": ["a machine having a similar action to a flail, used for threshing or slashing"], "domainClasses": [{"id": "farming", "text": "Farming"}, {"id": "mechanics", "text": "Mechanics"}], "examples": [{"notes": [{"text": "as modifier", "type": "grammaticalNote"}], "text": "a flail hedge trimmer"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0368550.009", "semanticClasses": [{"id": "mechanism", "text": "Mechanism"}], "shortDefinitions": ["machine with similar action"]}]}]}], "language": "en-gb", "lexicalCategory": {"id": "noun", "text": "Noun"}, "text": "flail"}, {"entries": [{"pronunciations": [{"audioFile": "https://audio.oxforddictionaries.com/en/mp3/flail_gb_1.mp3", "dialects": ["British English"], "phoneticNotation": "IPA", "phoneticSpelling": "fle\u026al"}], "senses": [{"definitions": ["wave or swing wildly"], "examples": [{"notes": [{"text": "no object", "type": "grammaticalNote"}], "text": "his arms flailed as he sought to maintain his balance"}], "id": "m_en_gbus0368550.012", "shortDefinitions": ["wave or swing wildly"], "subsenses": [{"definitions": ["flounder; 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