Definition of "feruling" []

• Present participle of ferule. (verb)
• Punishment with a ferule. (noun)

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• ""This was to be the old-fashioned 'feruling' of the hand."
• "His crowning act was feruling a little boy, as ingenuous and innocent-hearted a child as ever breathed, on the tops of his finger-nails -- a refinement of cruelty beyond all previous example."
• "To be sure, somebody who ought to know, told me it was the lightest ` ` feruling '' ever child received; but Daisy and Tommy both assured their mothers that it was the ` ` dreadfulest, cruelest, hardest whipping ever was. ''"