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flail tank

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 2.55 in modern English

Syllables
flail -tank
IPA
16
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

a type of armored tracked fighting vehicle with a motorized spinning drum with the longitudinal axis of the drum arranged horizontally, perpendicular to the motion of the tank, with flail chains attached to the front end, which can clear landmines and barbed wire by beating them to bits

Etymology

From flail + tank; From the flail chains attached to the rotating drum attached to the tank.

Inflected Forms

flail tanks (plural)

Questions

What does flail tank mean?
a type of armored tracked fighting vehicle with a motorized spinning drum with the longitudinal axis of the drum arranged horizontally, perpendicular to the motion of the tank, with flail chains attached to the front end, which can clear landmines and barbed wire by beating them to bits
Where does flail tank come from?
From flail + tank; From the flail chains attached to the rotating drum attached to the tank.

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