| Part of Speech | Definition | |
| Verb | 1. Present participle conjugation of the verb ferule.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
| Verb Base (ferule) | 1. To punish with a ferule.[Websters]. 2. Base verb from the following inflections: feruling, feruled, ferules, feruler, ferulers, ferulingly and feruledly.[Eve - graph theoretic] | |
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Date "FERULING" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1914. (references) |
Specialty Definition: ferule
| Domain | Definition | ||
| Noah Webster | 1: [Noun] A little wooden pallet or slice, used to punish children in school, by striking them on the palm of the hand. [Ferular is not used.]. | 2: [Noun] Under the Eastern empire, the ferula was the emperor's scepter. It was a long stem or shank, with a flat square head.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary. | |
| Wiktionary | [Noun] A ruler-shaped instrument, generally used to spank naughty children on the hand. (references) | ||
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