Ferulae vs Perulae - What's the difference?
ferulae | perulae |
(obsolete) the stroke of a cane
*1916': "And Old Barrett has a new way of twisting the note so that you can't open it and fold it again to see how many '''ferulae you are to get." - (James Joyce), (Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man) (Macmillan Press Ltd, paperback, 50)