rulering

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English

Verb

rulering

  1. present participle and gerund of ruler

Noun

rulering (plural rulerings)

  1. A spanking with a ruler.
    • 1849 May – 1850 November, Charles Dickens, chapter 7, in The Personal History of David Copperfield, London: Bradbury & Evans, , published 1850, →OCLC:
      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.