2. Noun. Punishment with a ferule. ¹
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Definition of Feruling
1. ferule [v] - See also: ferule
Lexicographical Neighbors of Feruling
Literary usage of Feruling
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Granite Monthly (1888)
"If I took the feruling, it would be a mortification to me all my life, for no-
teacher but Prudence Morse had ever struck me a blow. ..."
2. Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes by John Torrey Morse (1896)
"He spoke of some things I might have recalled ; for instance, my famous feruling,
which I suppose you have not forgotten. He did not know the sequel — forty ..."
3. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1897)
"... switching and feruling of the nervous and often infuriated schoolma'am; hustled
and trampled by the outward and inward rash at school opening, ..."
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