Definition of Feruling

1. Verb. (present participle of ferule) ¹

2. Noun. Punishment with a ferule. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Feruling

1. ferule [v] - See also: ferule

Lexicographical Neighbors of Feruling

fertilizes
fertilizing
ferula
ferulaceous
ferulae
ferular
ferulars
ferulas
ferule
feruled
ferules
ferulic
ferulic acid
ferulic acid hydroxylase
feruling (current term)
ferulings
feruloyl-4-coumaroyl esterase
feruloyl-coenzyme A reductase
feruloyl esterase
ferumoxide
ferumoxtran
feruvite
fervanite
fervence
fervencies
fervency
fervent
ferventer
fervently

Literary usage of Feruling

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Granite Monthly (1888)
"If I took the feruling, it would be a mortification to me all my life, for no- teacher but Prudence Morse had ever struck me a blow. ..."

2. Life and Letters of Oliver Wendell Holmes by John Torrey Morse (1896)
"He spoke of some things I might have recalled ; for instance, my famous feruling, which I suppose you have not forgotten. He did not know the sequel — forty ..."

3. Education by Project Innovation (Organization) (1897)
"... switching and feruling of the nervous and often infuriated schoolma'am; hustled and trampled by the outward and inward rash at school opening, ..."

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