0 (especially of arms and legs) to move energetically in an uncontrolled way:
1 a tool consisting of a rod that hangs from a long handle, used especially in the past for threshing grain
2 to wave something, esp. arms or legs, energetically but with little or no control:
We can complete it step by step however long the road is and it can't be completed however short the road is if you don't even mark your footprint.