Definitions for ferules

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ferules fer·ule

Spelling: [fer-uh l, -ool]

IPA: /ˈfɛr əl, -ul/

Ferules is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 140 anagrams from letters in ferules (eeflrsu).

Definitions for ferules

noun

1. Also, ferula. a rod, cane, or flat piece of wood for punishing children, especially by striking them on the hand.
2. a ring or cap, usually of metal, put around the end of a post, cane, or the like, to prevent splitting.
3. a short metal sleeve for strengthening a tool handle at the end holding the tool.
4. a bushing or adapter holding the end of a tube and inserted into a hole in a plate in order to make a tight fit, used in boilers, condensers, etc.
5. a short ring for reinforcing or decreasing the interior diameter of the end of a tube.
6. a short plumbing fitting, covered at its outer end and caulked or otherwise fixed to a branch from a pipe so that it can be removed to give access to the interior of the pipe.
7. Angling. either of two fittings on the end of a section of a sectional fishing rod, one fitting serving as a plug and the other as a socket for fastening the sections together. one of two or more small rings spaced along the top of a casting rod to hold and guide the line.

verb (used with object)

1. to punish with a ferule.
2. to furnish with a ferrule.

noun, verb (used with object)

1. ferrule.

Origin of ferules

1375-1425; late Middle English ferula, ferul(e) giant fennel Latin ferula schoolmaster's rod (literally, stalk of giant fennel); replacing Old English ferele Latin

Examples for ferules

He beat the rock at his feet with the ferule of his stick, and could not lift his head again.

The man with the umbrella drew with the ferule of it a line on the ground.

"I'd like to ferule yours," he gritted between his set teeth.

Two or three of you, I fear, are doomed to feel the master's ferule.

But it was not as a knight of the ferule that you won this mark of distinction?

The ferule and a long flexible hickory switch were the insignia of office of the school mistress.

“Suffragettes,” gasped Uncle Jim with the ferule at his throat.

As she ran she caught her thick parasol by the ferule and swung it aloft.

No; it was the thought of the master, that dreadful man with the ferule and the birch sticks.

If he should curve his elbow in the least, it would get a rap from the master's ferule.