See ferrule in All languages combined, or Wiktionary
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"text": "'Butler! Send my rickshaw round to the front at once! To the station, jaldi!' she added as the rickshaw-man appeared, and, having settled herself in the rickshaw, poked him in the back with the ferrule of her umbrella to start him.",
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"English transitive verbs"
],
"examples": [
{
"ref": "[1866, Ann S[ophia] Stephens, “The Sailor and His Two Companions”, in The Gold Brick, Philadelphia, Pa.: T. B. Peterson and Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 203:",
"text": "\"District school, I mean,\" said Dave, with a flourish of the hand. \"Where the master or mistress boards about, and ferrules the children with a pine ruler, if they don't toe a crack every spelling time.\"",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1892 November, “Ships”, in Journal of the American Society of Naval Engineers, volume IV, number 4, Washington, D.C.: R. Beresford, printer, →OCLC, page 837:",
"text": "The return of the Thunderer from her protracted steam trial to Madeira has removed all doubt with regard to the efficacy of the new patent ferrule, as applied to boiler tubes. […] In fact, the highly successful results of the trial will, no doubt, lead to the universal practice of ferruling the boiler tubes in all our war vessels fitted with forced draft.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "1902, The English Mechanic and World of Science, volume 74, London: E. J. Kibblewhite, →OCLC, page 42:",
"text": "I employed a practical boiler smith, who expanded and ferruled the tubes.",
"type": "quote"
},
{
"ref": "2011, Jerry Aaron, “The Fork in the Road”, in Diesel Smoke over Asphalt Ribbons: Dreams in the Rearview Mirror, Sparks, Nev.: Jerry Aaron, →ISBN, page 130, column 1:",
"text": "Once inside the shop he took the line and cut the bad end off and with that done, he attempted to ferrule the cut end.",
"type": "quote"
}
],
"glosses": [
"To equip with a ferrule."
],
"links": [
[
"equip",
"equip"
],
[
"ferrule",
"#Noun"
]
],
"raw_glosses": [
"(transitive) To equip with a ferrule."
],
"tags": [
"transitive"
]
}
],
"sounds": [
{
"ipa": "/ˈfɛɹ(ə)l/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/-ɹuːl/",
"tags": [
"Received-Pronunciation"
]
},
{
"ipa": "/ˈfɛɹəl/",
"tags": [
"General-American"
]
},
{
"audio": "en-us-ferrule.ogg",
"mp3_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/transcoded/0/0e/En-us-ferrule.ogg/En-us-ferrule.ogg.mp3",
"ogg_url": "https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/0/0e/En-us-ferrule.ogg"
},
{
"rhymes": "-ɛɹəl"
},
{
"homophone": "feral"
},
{
"homophone": "ferryl"
},
{
"homophone": "Farrell stripped-by-parse_pron_post_template_fn"
}
],
"wikipedia": [
"Auckland War Memorial Museum"
],
"word": "ferrule"
}
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