Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Fitted or furnished with a ferrule.
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- adjective Having a
ferrule
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Examples
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The sharp noise of an iron-ferruled stick was heard on the stones, striking them at irregular intervals.
Madame Bovary 2003
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At this juncture one of the visitors hastens down the notched pole and gets the silver-ferruled lance or silver-sheathed knife that has been left concealed near the house.
The Manóbos of Mindanáo Memoirs of the National Academy of Sciences, Volume XXIII, First Memoir John M. Garvan
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They will learn probity and goodness, and it will not be ferruled into them either.
The Aldine, Vol. 5, No. 1., January, 1872 A Typographic Art Journal Various
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The staves at each end, to which the nets are permanently attached, are made of red deal, ferruled and jointed at the middle, in the manner of a fishing rod, for the convenience of carriage.
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He had lived a portion of his life in South America, and he used to promenade every pleasant afternoon up and down the Avenue swinging a sharply pointed, steel-ferruled swagger-stick.
Walking-Stick Papers Robert Cortes Holliday
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They were heavily ferruled by the village blacksmith, for, although we were men of peace, we thought it advisable to provide against what were known as single-stick encounters, which were then by no means uncommon, and as curved handles would have been unsuitable in the event of our having to use them either for defensive or offensive purposes, ours were selected with naturally formed knobs at the upper end.
From John O'Groats to Land's End Robert Naylor
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It was now Pretty who came to him for the advance of cash enough to buy a walking-stick of the following superb description: a thoroughly even, straight-grained bit of hickory-wood, tapered like a billiard-cue, an inch and a half thick at the butt and three fourths of an inch thick at the point, the butt carrying a knob of silver, and the point heavily ferruled.
The Dozen from Lakerim Rupert Hughes 1914
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The indistinct noise of the city floated in, the dolorous, snuffling air of an accordeon, the mooing of cows could be heard; somebody's soles were scraping dryly and a ferruled cane rapped resoundingly on the flags of the pavement; lazily and irregularly the wheels of a cabman's victoria, rolling at a pace through Yama, would rumble by, and all these sounds mingled with a beauty and softness in the pensive drowsiness of the evening.
Yama: the pit Bernard Guilbert Guerney 1904
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In their hands they carried heavy ferruled canes, with which they tapped the pavement in unison as they went; and their boards bore the above legend in front and a further huge poster at the back which read:
The Blonde Lady Being a Record of the Duel of Wits between Arsène Lupin and the English Detective Maurice Leblanc 1902
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Twice he felt the shocking impact of his lance point; once he drove the ferruled counterpoise at a man who went down under his horse's feet.
Ailsa Paige 1899
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