ferule

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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

When a child was sent to school in those days, the classic phrase was that he was placed under Mr. So-and-so's ferule.

From Henry Esmond; The English Humourists; The Four Georges by Saintsbury, George

He then walked twice around him; having done which he confronted him again, thumped the ferule of his umbrella on the floor, and says he: "Well!"

From The Orpheus C. Kerr Papers. Series 2 by Newell, R. H. (Robert Henry)

Bateaux are navigated up stream by means of slender poles of spruce, about twelve or fifteen feet in length, armed with an iron point, confined by a ferule or iron band around its extremity.

From Forest Life and Forest Trees: comprising winter camp-life among the loggers, and wild-wood adventure. with Descriptions of lumbering operations on the various rivers of Maine and New Brunswick by Springer, John S.