Meaning

6 senses

  1. (dated, slang)A girl.

  2. A basket made of rushes, used chiefly to hold figs and raisins.

    a basket for holding dried fruit (especially raisins or figs)

  3. The quantity of fruit or other items contained in a frail.

  4. A rush for weaving baskets.

  5. Synonym of farasola (“old unit of weight”).

  6. (England, dialectal, obsolete)Synonym of flail.

Examples

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  1. Tom is old and frail.

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  2. Tom was old and frail.

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  3. Yanni was a tiny frail guy.

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  4. He's become frail in his old age.

    ruОн стал хилым в старости.

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  5. The elderly woman was frail but feisty.

    ruПожилая женщина была хрупкой, но энергичной.

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Origin

From Middle English frele, fraill, from Old French fraile, from Latin fragilis. Cognate to

From Middle English frele, fraill, from Old French fraile, from Latin fragilis. Cognate to fraction, fracture, and doublet of fragile.

From Middle English frayel, from Old French frael, fraiel, of unknown origin; possibly a dissimilatory variant of flael, flaiel (“flail”).

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Forms

plural: frails
Singularfrail
Pluralfrails

regular

Synonyms

2 synonyms
farasolaflail

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
fragmentationC1fragranceB2fragrantframeB2frameworkfranc
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