Definition of "ferules" []

• Plural form of ferule. (noun)

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• "‘Will you have some of this?’ said the fat boy, plunging into the pie up to the very ferules of the knife and fork."
• "These came armed with ferules and birchen rods, being a race of schoolmasters, who first discovered the marvelous sympathy between the seat of honor and the seat of intellect, — and that the shortest way to get knowledge into the head was to hammer it into the bottom. —"
• "I do not know the composition of M. Regnault's mastic, but Faraday (M.nipulations, § 1123) gives the following receipt for a cement for joining ferules to retorts, etc:"