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
But the ordinary public chastisement was the bastinado, a stroke or two on the palm with that almost obsolete weapon now, the ferule.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 14, No. 85, November, 1864 by Various
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 George Saintsbury
As she ran she caught her thick parasol by the ferule and swung it aloft.
From Lad: A Dog by Albert Payson Terhune
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
