ruleringとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

rulering (複数形 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 558196156:

     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.