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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 Smith, Arthur H.

He sighed, striking at the ground with the ferule of his stick.

From Miss Arnott's Marriage by Marsh, Richard

Down came the hard-wood ferule, whizzing through the air like a thing of life.

From Little Grandmother by May, Sophie




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