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Rulering

noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A spanking with a ruler.

    "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."

Verb
  1. 1
    present participle and gerund of ruler form-of, gerund, participle, present

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