ferula🔊

(obsolete) A ferule.

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The birch upon the breeches of the small ones, / And humble with a ferula the tall ones,

William Shakespeare & John Fletcher, The Two Noble Kinsmen

(archaic) A stroke from a cane.

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And Old Barrett has a new way of twisting the note so that you can't open it and fold it again to see how many ferulæ you are to get.

James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man

(obsolete) The imperial sceptre in the Byzantine Empire.

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