= palmer, n.2
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| 释义 | society > authority > punishment > corporal punishment > instrument or place of corporal punishment > 			[noun]		 > ferule or flat piece of wood (8)		 palmeryc1300 = palmer, n.2 palmera1387 A flat piece of wood used for striking the palm of the hand as a punishment; a ferule. ferule-rod1528 attributive and in other combinations, as †ferule-rod; ferule-fingered adj. Obsolete whose fingers are liable to the ferule. ferule1559 = ferula, n. 2. ferula1579 From the use of the fennel-stalk in Roman times: A cane, rod, or other instrument of punishment, esp. a flat piece of wood (see ferule, n. 2); figur… ferular1594 = ferula, n. 2. paddle1828 Originally U.S. A wooden instrument with a flat blade or surface (often with a number of holes bored through it), used for administering corporal… spatula1830 A ferule. rare.  | 
	
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