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Ferules vs Feruled - What's the difference?

ferules | feruled |

As a noun ferules

is .

As a verb feruled is

(ferule).

ferules

English

Noun

(head)

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    feruled

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (ferule)

    • ferule

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A ruler-shaped instrument, generally used to slap naughty children on the hand.
  • *1850 , Melville, White-Jacket ,
    • 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 ,
  • *: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.

    • Verb

    (ferul)
  • To punish with a ferule.
    • I could cudgel a great lubberly delinquent of a boy my manhood rebelled. — William S. Woodbridge.

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