FERULE

ferule

Noun

  1. A ruler-shaped instrument, generally used to slap naughty children on the hand.

Verb

  1. To punish with a ferule.
    I could cudgel a great lubberly delinquent of a boy but when it came to feruling a girl, my manhood rebelled. — William S. Woodbridge.


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