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▪ I. † ˈflagel1 Obs.
Also 4 flegel.
[a. OF. flageol, flagel, flajol, a. Pr. flajol, flaujol; of unknown origin: the vulgar Lat. type would be flaviolus.
Diez's suggestion of derivation from Rom. flauto flute is untenable on phonological grounds.]
= flageolet.
c1325Coer de L. 6681 They herde no pype, ne flagel. a1330Fragm. Alexander in Rouland & V. (1836) p. xx, The waite gan a flegel blawe.
▪ II. flagel2
Used with etymological allusion for flail, q.v.
1647Fuller Good Th. in Worse T., Occas. Med. x. 218, I finde two sad Etymologies of Tribulation. One from (Tribulus) a three forked Thorn..The other, from Tribulus, the Head of a Flail, or Flagell. |