Meanings (ES + gloss)
férula
A ruler-shaped instrument, generally used to slap naughty children on the hand.
He [a midshipman] lords it over those below him, while lorded over himself by his superiors. It is as if with one hand a school-boy snapped his fingers at a dog, and at the same ti…
In his hand he swayed a ferule, that sceptre of despotic power; the birch of justice reposed on three nails behind the throne, a constant terror to evil doers, […].
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