ferule

Example Sentences

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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

If he should curve his elbow in the least, it would get a rap from the master's ferule.

From Little Grandmother by May, Sophie

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

Then Miss Simmonds stuck her big umbrella ferule down in the turf, and took the big book from under her arm.

From Shireen and her Friends Pages from the Life of a Persian Cat by Stables, Gordon