Ferrule vs Ferule - What's the difference?
ferrule | ferule |
A metal band or cap placed around a shaft to reinforce it or to prevent splitting.
* {{quote-book, year=1905, author=
, title=
, chapter=2 A bushing for securing a pipe joint.
A metal sleeve placed inside a gutter at the top.
In billiards, the plastic band attaching the tip to the cue.
In painting, the pinched metal band which holds the bristles of a brush to the shaft.
On an ice axe, the metal spike at the end of the shaft.
A ruler-shaped instrument, generally used to slap naughty children on the hand.
*1850 , Melville, White-Jacket ,
*1851 , George Borrow, Lavengro ,
*: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 ,
*:His rod and his ferule were seldom idle now -- at least among the smaller pupils.
To punish with a ferule.
As nouns the difference between ferrule and ferule
is that ferrule is a metal band or cap placed around a shaft to reinforce it or to prevent splitting while ferule is a ruler-shaped instrument, generally used to slap naughty children on the hand.As a verb ferule is
to punish with a ferule.ferrule
English
Noun
(en noun)citation, passage=The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall–marked.}}
- 1986'. “Lucas withdrew the cane. Its polished '''ferrule flashed in the lantern glare”. ''Count Zero .
ferule
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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 .
Verb
(ferul)- I could cudgel a great lubberly delinquent of a boy my manhood rebelled. — William S. Woodbridge.
