feruling
/ˈfɛrəlɪŋ/
verb
- Present participle of ferule: striking or punishing with a ferule.
- Feruling was a common punishment in old schools.
- The teacher was feruling the student for talking back.
- He remembered the headmaster feruling him for cheating.
noun
- The act of punishing with a ferule.
- The school's policy strictly forbade feruling.
- He wrote about the harsh feruling he experienced as a child.
- Feruling was outlawed in many countries by the 20th century.