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▪ I. ferule, n.|ˈfɛrjuːl|
Also 6 ferrall, 6–7 ferul(l.
[ad. L. ferul-a: see ferula.]
1. = ferula 1. Also a plant or stalk of it.
c1420Pallad. on Husb. i. 1049 Take ferules eke or saly twigges take. 1589Fleming Bucol. Virg. x. 30 Syluanus..came..Shaking his flouring feruls. 1620Brinsley Virg. Eclog. 95 The ferule is a..big herbe like vnto fennel giant.
2. = ferula 2.
1599Bp. Hall Sat. iv. i. 169 My rimes relish of the ferule still. 1636B. Jonson Discov. (1641) 115 From the rodde, or ferule, I would have them free. a1656Bp. Hall Rem. Wks. (1660) 304 Whilst he was under the ferule. 1825Hone Every-day Bk. I. 967 The ferule..was a sort of flat ruler, widened at the inflicting end into a shape resembling a pear..with a..hole in the middle, to raise blisters. 1850W. Irving Goldsmith i. 23 He resumed the ferule. 1875Farrar Seekers i. ii. 24 To learn at the point of the ferule—trash.
3. attrib. and Comb., as † ferule-rod; † ferule-fingered a., whose fingers are liable to the ferule.
1528Impeachm. Wolsey 192 in Furnivall Ball. I. 358 Be ware of the Ferrall Rodde! 1620Bp. Hall Hon. Mar. Clergy 127 Those ancient ferule-fingred Boy-Popes.
▪ II. ferule
var. of ferrule n. and v.
▪ III. ferule, v.|ˈfɛrjuːl|
Also 6 ferrule.
[f. prec.]
trans. To beat, strike, with a ferule.
1579Gosson Sch. Abuse (Arb.) 24, I shoulde..bee Ferruled for my faulte. 1873Channing in Salt Thoreau (1890) 26 So he did..by feruling six of his pupils. 1878Mrs. Stowe Poganuc P. xiv. 121 To ferule..disorderly scholars. |