Talk:Sybaris/@comment-173.65.74.84-20140519054155/@comment-69.247.79.95-20140531021409

I think he was referring to a morningstar, not a flail. A morningstar is a spiked metal ball on the end of a wooden shaft, which would often be reinforced with metal.. A flail is a flanged metal head attached by a short chain to a wooden shaft, again often reinforced with metal.

They're really quite different, I don't see why people mix them up so much.