ferulen.
/ˈfɛr(j)uːl/, /ˈfɛrəl/, /ˈfɛrl̩/, U.S. /ˈfɛrəl/ 1. = ferula n. 1. Also a plant or stalk of it.
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the world > food and drink > food > fruit and vegetables > vegetables > herb > [noun] > fennel
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > particular vegetables > [noun] > culinary herbs > fennel
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c1420 Pallad. on Husb. i. 1049 Take ferules eke or saly twigges take.
1589 A. Fleming tr. Virgil Eclogs x. 30 in A. Fleming tr. Virgil Bucoliks Syluanus..came..Shaking his flouring feruls.
1620 J. Brinsley tr. Virgil Eclogues x. 95/2 The ferule is a..big herbe like vnto fennel giant.
2. = ferula n. 2.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > club or stick > [noun] > cane or switch
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > rod or birch
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > ferule or flat piece of wood
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1559 W. Baldwin et al. Myrroure for Magistrates Mortimer ix The one of knighthoode bare the ferle.
1598 Bp. J. Hall Virgidemiarum: 3 Last Bks. iv. i. 12 My rimes rellish of the Ferule still.
a1637 B. Jonson Timber 1695 in Wks. (1640) III From the rodde, or ferule, I would have them free.
a1656 Bp. J. Hall Shaking of Olive-tree (1660) ii. 304 Whilst he was under the ferule.
1825 in W. Hone Every-day Bk. (1826) 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.
1849 W. Irving Oliver Goldsmith (rev. ed.) i. 23 He resumed the ferule.
1868 F. W. Farrar Seekers after God i. ii. 24 To learn at the point of the ferule—trash.
Compounds
attributive and in other combinations, as †ferule-rod; † ferule-fingered adj. Obsolete whose fingers are liable to the ferule.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > club or stick > [noun] > cane or switch
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > [noun] > ferule or flat piece of wood
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > [adjective] > that has been beaten with stick or cudgel > liable to be
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1528 Impeachm. Wolsey in F. J. Furnivall Ballads from MSS (1868) I. 358 Be ware of the Ferrall Rodde!
1620 Bp. J. Hall Honor Married Clergie i. xxiii. 127 Those ancient ferule-fingred Boy-Popes.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1895; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
ferulev.
/ˈfɛr(j)uːl/, /ˈfɛrəl/, /ˈfɛrl̩/, U.S. /ˈfɛrəl/ transitive. To beat, strike, with a ferule.
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society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > administer corporal punishment [verb (transitive)] > with strap or ferule
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1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 6v I shoulde..bee Ferruled for my faulte.
1873 W. E. Channing Thoreau 24 So he did, by feruling six of his pupils.
1878 H. B. Stowe Poganuc People xiv. 121 To ferule..disorderly scholars.
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