Definition of "souple" []

• The part of a flail that strikes the grain. (noun)

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• "Were a Mohegan from olden times to miraculously time-travel to the future and meet some of these 'souple' language speakers, what would he make of them?"
• ""Thank your Ladyship kindly," Miss Brennan said with one of the dips which perhaps kept her limbs "souple" as she said."
• "I could see the villains, like sae mony craws on the edge of the brae; and I reckon that they saw me; for some of the loons were beginning to crawl down the hill, but liker auld wives in their red cloaks, coming frae a field preaching, than such a souple lad as I was."