"ferular" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1644, John Milton, Areopagitica; a Speech of Mr. John Milton for the Liberty of Unlicenc’d Printing, to the Parlament of England, London: [s.n.], →OCLC:",
          "text": "What advantage is it to be a man over a boy at school, if we have only escaped the ferular, to come under the fescu of an imprimatur",
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        "A ferule."
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        "(obsolete) A ferule."
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        "A ferule."
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        "(obsolete) A ferule."
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