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Ferule

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Noun

1. ferule

a switch (a stick or cane or flat paddle) used to punish children

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.

Ferule

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noun
1. 
a flat piece of wood, such as a ruler, used in some schools to cane children on the hand
verb
2. (transitive) rare
to punish with a ferule
noun
a variant spelling of ferrule

Collins English Dictionary. Copyright © HarperCollins Publishers

Ferule

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noun
1. 
a flat stick or ruler used for punishing children
verb transitiveWord forms: ˈferuled or ˈferuling
2. 
to strike or punish with a ferule

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Ferule

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n.
An instrument, such as a cane, stick, or flat piece of wood, used in punishing children.
tr.v. fer·uled, fer·ul·ing, fer·ules
To punish with a ferule.

The American Heritage ® Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition copyright ©2018 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

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