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ferule

[fer-uhl, -ool] / ˈfɛr əl, -ul /






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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 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 Arthur H. Smith

As she ran she caught her thick parasol by the ferule and swung it aloft.

From Lad: A Dog by Albert Payson Terhune

When you have towed it ashore, finding that it has broken off close to the ferule, which is immoveably fixed in the lower half of your rod.

From Maxims and Hints on Angling, Chess, Shooting, and Other Matters also, Miseries of Fishing by Richard Penn

He has his volunteer Bodyguard of Tappe-durs, let us say Strike-sharps, fierce Patriots with feruled sticks; and Jacobins kissing the hem of his garment.

From The French Revolution by Thomas Carlyle

The mouth-piece is made of a circlet of silk-grass, and the farther end is feruled with a kind of nut, forming a sight.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Slice 1 "Bisharin" to "Bohea" by Various

“I thank you, Mamie,” said she at last; and she stroked the little hand given to her so loyally for the sacrificial feruling, but she turned her eyes away.

From Miss Ashton's New Pupil A School Girl's Story by Mrs. S. S. Robbins

For another full minute he stared down at the girl, but he apparently had no longer any thought of feruling her.

From A Busy Year at the Old Squire's by C. A. (Charles Asbury) Stephens


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