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ferruling

ferruling is the present participle and gerund of ferrule.

Meaning of ferrule

Verb

ferrule (third-person singular simple present ferrules, present participle ferruling, simple past and past participle ferruled)

  1. (transitive) To equip with a ferrule.
    • "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."[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

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Questions about ferruling

What is ferruling the present participle and gerund of?
Ferruling is the present participle and gerund of ferrule.

Words near ferruling in the dictionary

  1. ferrule
  2. ferruled
  3. ferruler
  4. ferrulers
  5. ferrules
  6. ferruling
  7. ferrum
  8. ferruminate
  9. ferruminated
  10. ferruminates
  11. ferruminating

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