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. Channing, in 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 People, xiv. 121. To ferule and thrash disorderly scholars.
