feruling
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]feruling
- present participle and gerund of ferule
Noun
[edit]feruling (plural ferulings)
- Punishment with a ferule.
- 1896, Clifton Johnson, “Charms”, in What They Say in New England (non-fiction), Boston, Massachusetts, United States: Lee and Shepard Publishers, page 43:
- In the old days when feruling was common in the schools, the boys had a belief that if they spit in their hand before the teacher struck it, the ferule would break in two at the first blow.