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ferule
noun as in cudgel
verb as in chastise
verb as in flog
Example Sentences
Perhaps we may think the ferule well deserved when we read of the schoolboy's trick immortalized by Persius.
And from the rod or ferule I would have them free, as from the menace of them; for it is both deformed and servile.
The master looks at his great silver watch, and then, with tiresome deliberation, puts the ferule into his desk.
The machine resembled a green gingham circus tent, and it was crowned with a ferule as large as a barrel.
People said the steel ferule of the umbrella had attracted the electric current.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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