ferule
Example Sentences
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A kind of miracle happened: the ferule of the teacher became the poet's magic wand.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yen picked up his ferule and hit it like a student.
From "The Woman Warrior" by Maxine Hong Kingston
But the ordinary public chastisement was the bastinado, a stroke or two on the palm with that almost obsolete weapon now, the ferule.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 by Various
The insulation between the water-pipe and the brass ferule has been the subject of much experimenting and is discussed on page 24.
From Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man by Benedict, Francis Gano
He had a stick in his hand, which seemed to be armed at the lower end with a little ferule of iron.
From Rollo in London by Abbott, Jacob
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
