Also 5 vyrall, 7– ferrel(l, 8 ferril. [f. prec.] trans. To fit or furnish with a ferrule.
1486. Bk. St. Albans, Fishing, 8. Thenne vyrell the staffe at bothe endes wyth longe hopis of yron.
1670. Narborough, Jrnl., in Acc. Sev. Late Voy., I. (1711), 89. The Staves which they walk with were headed and ferrelled with Silver, and ferrelled on the joynts with Silver.
1712. J. James, trans. Le Blond’s Gardening, 196. They [Wooden Pipes] are sharpen’d at one End, and are ferriled and girdled with Iron at the other, which serves for jointing them one into another, and these Joints are cover’d over with Pitch.
1787. Best, Angling (ed. 2), 10. If you ferrel it [the rod], observe that they [pieces] fit.
1870. Thornbury, Old Stories Re-told, 247. In the stable the men began at once to clean the arms, which were lying on a bench in the loft, and to ferrule the pikes.
