rulering

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noun

A spanking with a ruler.

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Meanings

verb
  1. gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of ruler
nounrulering (plural rulerings)

plural rulerings

  1. A spanking with a ruler.
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    The rest of the half-year is a jumble in my recollection of the daily strife and struggle of our lives; […] of the alternation of boiled beef with roast beef, and boiled mutton with roast mutton; of clods of bread-and-butter, dog’s-eared lesson-books, cracked slates, tear-blotted copy-books, canings, rulerings, hair-cuttings, rainy Sundays, suet-puddings, and a dirty atmosphere of ink, surrounding all.

    1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 7, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, […], published 1850, →OCLC
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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “rulering,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/rulering.

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