ferrule
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
ferrule (plural ferrules)
- A band#Noun|band or cap#Noun|cap (usually metal) place#Verb|placed around a shaft#Noun|shaft to reinforce it or to prevent splitting#Noun|splitting. [from early 17th c.]
- 1934 October, George Orwell [pseudonym; Eric Arthur Blair], chapter 23 ↗, in Burmese Days (Project Gutenberg Australia; ebook no. 0200051h.html), New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, Publishers, published November 2015, OCLC 1810828 ↗:
- 'Butler! Send my rickshaw round to the front at once! To the station, jaldi!' she added as the rickshaw-man appeared, and, having settled herself in the rickshaw, poked him in the back with the ferrule of her umbrella to start him.
- (specifically, climbing) The metal spike#Noun|spike at the end of the shaft of an ice axe.
- A band holding part#Noun|parts of an object#Noun|object together.
ferrule (ferrules, present participle ferruling; past and past participle ferruled)
- (transitive) To equip with a ferrule.
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