flail: an implement consisting of handle with a free swinging stick at the end; used in manual threshing
implement: instrumentation (a piece of equipment or tool) used to effect an end
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