ferule
See also: férule
English
Noun
ferule (plural ferules)
- A ruler-shaped instrument, generally used to slap naughty children on the hand.
- 1850, Melville, White-Jacket, chapter 52
- It is as if with one hand a school-boy snapped his fingers at a dog, and at the same time received upon the other the discipline of the usher's ferule.
- 1851, George Borrow, Lavengro, chapter 6
- The master, who stood at the end of the room, with a huge ferule under his arm, bent full upon me a look of stern appeal; [...]
- 1876, Mark Twain, Tom Sawyer, chapter 21
- His rod and his ferule were seldom idle now -- at least among the smaller pupils.
- 1850, Melville, White-Jacket, chapter 52
Translations
Verb
ferule (third-person singular simple present ferules, present participle feruling, simple past and past participle feruled)
- (transitive) To punish with a ferule.
- 1862, William S. Woodbridge, Captain Paul's Adventure: A "Charcoal Sketch", Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine, Volume 15, page 72,
- And they were right in their assumption; I could cudgel a great lubberly delinquent of a boy […] but when it came to feruling a girl […] my manhood rebelled […] .
- 1862, William S. Woodbridge, Captain Paul's Adventure: A "Charcoal Sketch", Ballou's Dollar Monthly Magazine, Volume 15, page 72,
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