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
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 John S. Springer
The ferrule of a walking-stick is a distinct word from ferule, an aid to education.
From The Romance of Words (4th ed.) by Ernest Weekley
Just then, the stern face of Mr. Ball, the master, appeared at the door; he rapped sharply with his ferule, and called: “Books, books, books!”
From The Hoosier School-boy by Edward Eggleston
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
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
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
“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
