Also 6 ferrule. [f. prec.] trans. To beat, strike, with a ferule.
1579. Gosson, The Schoole of Abuse (Arb.), 24. I shoulde tel tales out of the Schoole, and bee Ferruled for my faulte, or hyssed at for a blab, yf I layde al the orders open before your eyes.
1873. E. Channing, in H. S. Salt, Thoreau (1890), 26. So he did … by feruling six of his pupils after school, one of whom was the maid-servant in his own house.
1878. Mrs. Stowe, Poganuc P., xiv. 121. To ferule and thrash disorderly scholars.
