feruling

Punishment with a ferule.

Noun

  1. Punishment with a ferule.
    • 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. - 1896, Clifton Johnson,...

Forms

ferulings

Verb

  1. present participle and gerund of ferule