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Definition: Ferule |
FeruleNoun1. A switch (a stick or cane or flat paddle) used to punish children. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "ferule" was first used: 1528. (references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Disapprobation | Incur blame, excite disapprobation, scandalize, shock, revolt; get a bad name, forfeit one's good opinion, be under a cloud, come under the ferule, bring a hornet's nest about one's ears. |
Scourge | Blacksnake, bullwhack, chicote, kurbash, quirt, rawhide, sjambok; rod in pickle; switch, ferule, cudgel, truncheon. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Ferule |
| English words defined with "ferule": Ferula, Ferular, Feruled, Feruling. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "ferule": Ferular. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man | Joyce, James | He marched towards the group, striking the flags with the heels of his boots and with the ferule of his heavy umbrella. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Expression using "ferule": come under the ferule. Additional references. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
ferule | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "ferule"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | vizore për ndëshkim, disiplinë e fortë. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ράβδοσ (bandy, bar, baton, crook, drub, ingot, perch, rod, shaft, staff, stick, truncheon, verge, walking stick, wand), βέργα (knife back, lath, pointer, rail, rod, shoot, switch, twig, wattle, wire, with), χάρακασ (pointer, rule, ruler), δέρνω (beat, beat up, beaten, churn, drub, flog, lambaste, lash, lick, scourge, shellac, spank, trounce, whip, whop). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | מקל (extenuating, indulgent, lenient, palliative, rod, staff, stave, stick, switch), סר'ל (foot rule, rule, ruler, scale). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | nádpálca (cane, fescue, ratan, rattan, rattan walking-stick). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | ferula (biteguard, dental prosthesis, mouthguard, night guard, peridontal splint, resin base, splint, splint denture, splint(occlusal splint)), verga (bar, birch, cane, rod, rood, staff, verge), bacchetta (baton, drumstick, pointer, ramrod, roach, roach clip, rod, stick, wand). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | erulefay adubaçao. (various references) наказывать линейкой. (various references) férula (biteguard, dental prosthesis, ferrule, mouthguard, night guard, peridontal splint, resin base, splint, splint denture, splint(occlusal splint)). (various references) färla. (various references) sopalamak (beat with a stick, birch, bludgeon, cane, club, cudgel, curry), sopa ile cezalandırmak, sopa (bashing, bat, baton, beating, birc-rod, bludgeon, cane, caning, club, cosh, cudgel, drubbing, fescue, flogging, rod, shillelagh, stick, switch), değnek (cane, cudgel, rod, staff, stick). (various references) ферула. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Language | Period | Translations |
| Latin | 500 BCE-Modern | ferula. (various references) |
| Middle English | 1100-1500 | ferula. (various references) |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "ferule": feruled, ferules. (additional references) | |
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"Ferule" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Berulf, Cerulli, Deurle, Erzulie, fartlek, Femulen, ferale, ferile, ferkle, Fernlee, feroe, feuille, feulle, Fiorile, firkle, frale, freculf, frenulum, freue, Freuler, freyle, frole, fruke, fruler, Futrelle, Gerulot, herule, merula, Merule. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: fueler, refuel. | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-f-l-r-u" | |
-1 letter: fleer, refel. | |
-2 letters: feel, fere, flee, flue, free, fuel, furl, leer, lure, reef, reel, rule. | |
-3 letters: eel, elf, ere, fee, fer, feu, flu, fur, lee, leu, ree, ref, rue. | |
-4 letters: ef, el, er, re. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-f-l-r-u" | |
+1 letter: ferrule, ferulae, feruled, ferules, flexure, fuelers, fueller, refuels. | |
+2 letters: befouler, cheerful, ferruled, ferrules, flexures, fluorene, fuellers, fullered, funereal, fusileer, refluent, refluxed, refluxes, refueled, sneerful. | |
+3 letters: befoulers, defaulter, fluorenes, fluoresce, flustered, fluttered, flutterer, fullerene, fulleries, fusileers, kerfuffle, liquefier, mufflered, prefeudal, refluence, refueling, refuelled, refulgent, refutable, regretful, reliquefy, reposeful, resentful, reshuffle, unfertile, woefuller. | |
+4 letters: carefuller, cheerfully, defaulters, desulfured, dolefuller, emulsifier, enfleurage, fearfuller, floundered, flummeries, fluoresced, fluorescer, fluoresces, flutterers, fourplexes, frequently, fullerenes, funereally, furbelowed, futureless, interfluve, kerfuffles, liquefiers, luciferase, millefleur, outfielder, pluperfect, presageful, refluences, refuelling, refulgence, refundable, remorseful, reshuffled, reshuffles, respectful, restfuller, revengeful, ruefulness, sufferable, sulfureted, umbellifer, unfiltered. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)46 65 72 75 6C 65 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..-. . .-. ..- .-.. . |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01000110 01100101 01110010 01110101 01101100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)F e r u l e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0046 0065 0072 0075 006C 0065 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)407184877871 |
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