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rulerings

rulerings is the plural of rulering.

Meaning of rulering

Noun

rulering (plural rulerings)

  1. A spanking with a ruler.
    • The rest of the half-year is a jumble in my recollection of the daily strife and struggle of our lives; […] of the alternation of boiled beef with roast beef, and boiled mutton with roast mutton; of clods of bread-and-butter, dog’s-eared lesson-books, cracked slates, tear-blotted copy-books...1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 7, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC

Questions about rulerings

What is rulerings the plural of?
Rulerings is the plural of rulering.

Words near rulerings in the dictionary

  1. ruler
  2. rulered
  3. ruleress
  4. ruleresses
  5. rulering
  6. rulerings
  7. rulerless
  8. rulers
  9. rulership
  10. rulerships
  11. rules

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