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ferule

NOUN
  1. a switch (a stick or cane or flat paddle) used to punish children

How To Use ferule In A Sentence

  • If I can't find a pipe maker to tinker with this ferule or make me a new one, we may be looking at digging way down deep in the saddlebags and funding a new border pipe. Obituaries
  • They are masters who instruct us without rod or ferule, without angry words, without clothes or money. The Love of Books : The Philobiblon of Richard de Bury
  • Soon after disengaging himself with perfect good humour, he had a sensation of the ferule in his back; immediately afterwards, of the hook entangling his ankles; then of the umbrella generally, wandering about his hat, and flapping at it like a great bird; and, lastly, of a poke or thrust below the ribs, which give him such exceeding anguish, that he could not refrain from turning round to offer a mild remonstrance. The Life and Adventures of Martin Chuzzlewit
  • He uses a few efficient tools, -- a lever commonly of rock-maple, six or seven feet long, with a stout spike in it, strongly feruled on, and a long spike-pole, with a screw at the end of the spike to make it hold. The Maine Woods
  • The ferule was a name given both to the bamboo and to the yellow cane, which grew plentifully both in the islands of the Greek Archipelago and in Roman life in the days of Cicero
  • It was only yesterday I feruled Ozen Wiggins for chewing gum. Little Grandmother
  • Patriots with feruled sticks; and Jacobins kissing the hem of his garment. The French Revolution
  • And I think a crack has developed in the top ferule of the bass drone. Obituaries
  • Use a ball-peen hammer or a block of wood and a nail hammer to knock the tool head out of the ferule on the handle.
  • I'm glad that hating on interiority is still ok because a significant portion of my book is about that, and I wouldn't want to end up on the wrong side of the ferule. anumma commented at 6:34 PM~ Ferule & Fescue
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