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/ˈfɛɹ.(ə)l/ · noun
A band or cap (usually metal) placed around a shaft to reinforce it or to prevent splitting..
The cane was produced in court; it was as stout as an old-fashioned club, and of terrific weight. The man who wielded it must have been very powerful, for he had only dealt one blow, but that blow had cracked the old man's skull. The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall-marked.
He walked on, waiting to be spoken to, trailing his ashplant by his side. Its ferrule followed lightly on the path, squealing at his heels.
'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.
Lucas withdrew the cane. Its polished ferrule flashed in the lantern glare.
"District school, I mean," said Dave, with a flourish of the hand. "Where the master or mistress boards about, and ferrules the children with a pine ruler, if they don't toe a crack every spelling time."
The return of the Thunderer from her protracted steam trial to Madeira has removed all doubt with regard to the efficacy of the new patent ferrule, as applied to boiler tubes. […] In fact, the highly successful results of the trial will, no doubt, lead to the universal practice of ferruling the boiler tubes in all our war vessels fitted with forced draft.
I employed a practical boiler smith, who expanded and ferruled the tubes.
Once inside the shop he took the line and cut the bad end off and with that done, he attempted to ferrule the cut end.
Use ferrule when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Ferrule means A band or cap (usually metal) placed around a shaft to reinforce it or to prevent splitting..
Common synonyms include virl, collet.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
The cane was produced in court; it was as stout as an old-fashioned club, and of terrific weight. The man who wielded it must have been very powerful, for he had only dealt one blow, but that blow had cracked the old man's skull. The cane was undoubtedly of foreign make, for it had a solid silver ferrule at one end, which was not English hall-marked.
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