Definition for Ferule:

• a switch ( a stick or cane or flat paddle) used to punish children

Synonyms for Ferule:

• n.

  •artifact (noun)
  • ferule.
  •cudgel (noun)
  • club,
  • blackjack,
  • stick,
  • rod,
  • paddle,
  • cane,
  • truncheon,
  • bat,
  • sap,
  • mace,
  • bludgeon.

• v.

  •chastise (verb)
  • lash,
  • censure,
  • lean on,
  • upbraid,
  • slap down,
  • pummel,
  • whip,
  • climb all over,
  • berate,
  • chasten,
  • Skelp,
  • ream,
  • punish,
  • spank,
  • scourge,
  • baste,
  • castigate,
  • beat,
  • chew out,
  • correct,
  • lay into,
  • flog,
  • thrash.
  •flog (verb)
  • leather,
  • whop,
  • belt,
  • flay,
  • whack,
  • HIT,
  • stripe,
  • hide,
  • strike,
  • lather,
  • whale,
  • give the cat o'nine tails,
  • whomp,
  • tan one's hide,
  • flax,
  • flagellate,
  • chastise,
  • trounce,
  • wax,
  • larrup.
  •whip (verb)
  • strap,
  • drub,
  • wallop,
  • tan,
  • trash,
  • bash.

• Other synonyms:

  •flog
  • Whaling,
  • Larruping,
  • tanned hide,
  • whacked,
  • Whaled,
  • Caned,
  • Leathering,
  • whopped,
  • striping,
  • caning,
  • whomps,
  • Larruped,
  • larrups,
  • flogging,
  • tan hide,
  • whops,
  • whacking,
  • whomping,
  • leathered.

Antonyms for Ferule:

• v.

  • chastise
    lose, promote, laud, surrender, assist, help, praise, comfort, cheer, protect, guard, aid, compliment, inspirit, forgive, encourage.
  • flog
    tap, fail.

Homophones for Ferule:

• frilly, Friuli, frill, fire wheel, fierily, freewheel, furl, firewall, fife rail, fire-wheel, free will, fibril, for a while, freewill, frail, four-wheel.

Hyponym for Ferule:

• n.

  • artifact
    switch.