How To Use Ferule In A Sentence
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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It was only yesterday I feruled Ozen Wiggins for chewing gum.
Little Grandmother
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Patriots with feruled sticks; and Jacobins kissing the hem of his garment.
The French Revolution
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And I think a crack has developed in the top ferule of the bass drone.
Obituaries
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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.
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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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A ferule was a sort of flat ruler, widened at the inflicting end into a shape resembling a pear, -- but nothing like so sweet, -- with a delectable hole in the middle to raise blisters, like a cupping-glass.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864
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The addition of a ferule was the next step; and the omission of the tang, and amalgamation of the ferule with the blade, gave rise to the socketed spear-head.
The Bronze Age in Ireland
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Wish I hadn't told, "thought good-natured Tommy, for to be feruled was the deepest disgrace at this school.
Little Men
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First and last that winter he feruled nearly all of us boys and several of the girls.
A Busy Year at the Old Squire's
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Wish I hadn't told, thought good-natured Tommy, for to be feruled was the deepest disgrace at this school.
Little Men: Life at Plumfield With Jo's Boys
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As for the name of this blog: the ferule and fescue were the two most important instruments of the schoolmaster of old--his rod or cane (ferule) and his pointer (fescue).
Archive 2006-05-01
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The insulation from the copper wall is made by a rubber stopper through which this piping is passed, the stopper being crowded into a brass ferule which is stoutly soldered to the copper wall.
Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man
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All my heart, all my affection, all my admiration, went out spontaneously to this frisky little forked black thing, this compact and compressed incarnation of energy and force and promptness and celerity and confidence, this smart, smily, engaging, shiney-eyed little devil, feruled on his upper end by a gleaming fire-coal of a fez with a red-hot tassel dangling from it.
Following the Equator, Part 5
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Coat the end of the tool head before driving it back into the ferule using a wood block and hammer.
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These came armed with ferules and birchen rods, being a race of schoolmasters, who first discovered the marvelous sympathy between the seat of honor and the seat of intellect, — and that the shortest way to get knowledge into the head was to hammer it into the bottom. —
Washington Irving
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I hated to be classed, cribbed, rebuked, and feruled at the pleasure of one who, as it seemed to me, knew no guide in his rewards but caprice, and no prompter in his punishments but passion.
Arthur Mervyn Or, Memoirs of the Year 1793
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Brass is able to deform slightly, hence a good bit of tightening causes the ferule to seal nicely against the pipe.
