ferules

‘Will you have some of this?’ said the fat boy, plunging into the pie up to the very ferules of the knife and fork.

The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club 2007

These came armed with ferules and birchen rods, being a race of schoolmasters, who first discovered the marvelous sympathy between the seat of honor and the seat of intellect, — and that the shortest way to get knowledge into the head was to hammer it into the bottom. —

Washington Irving 2004

Again, Regnault habitually used brass ferules, and cemented glass into them by means of his mastic, which can still be procured at a low rate from his instrument-makers (Golan, Paris).

On Laboratory Arts Richard Threlfall

I do not know the composition of M. Regnault's mastic, but Faraday (M.nipulations, § 1123) gives the following receipt for a cement for joining ferules to retorts, etc:

On Laboratory Arts Richard Threlfall

Who it is makes little difference, but children being helpless and the law giving us the right, we find gratification by falling upon them with straps, birch-rods, slippers, ferules, hairbrushes or apple-tree sprouts.

Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great Hubbard, Elbert, 1856-1915 1916

N, N are brass ferules soldered into the copper and zinc walls through which air-pipes pass; M,

Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man Francis Gano Benedict 1913

The water-current enters and leaves the chamber through two pipes insulated in two similar brass ferules soldered to the copper and zinc walls.

Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man Francis Gano Benedict 1913

Plate CLXXIV, _e_, _f_, have the same ferules referred to in the description above, but are of greater diameter.

Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 Jesse Walter Fewkes 1890

There are two deep grooves, or ferules, cut midway of their length, a distinctive characteristic of the modern flute paho.

Archeological Expedition to Arizona in 1895 Seventeenth Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology to the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, 1895-1896, Government Printing Office, Washington, 1898, pages 519-744 Jesse Walter Fewkes 1890

With one accord the guests turned and streamed in the direction of the gardens, turning to right and to left, peering beneath bushes, poking delicately among the foliage of flower-beds with the ferules of walking - sticks and parasols ...

A College Girl George de Horne Vaizey 1887