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

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

Think of the old Quaker teacher, Caleb Johnson, trying to ferule a few ideas into Robert Fulton's head!

From The Child's Book of American Biography by Stimpson, Mary Stoyell

The scholars simply bar the front door, and amuse themselves in using the teacher’s ferule for a bat, and the Trimetrical Classic, or the Confucian Analects, for a ball.

From Village Life in China A Study in Sociology by Smith, Arthur H.