ferrule

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• Received-Pronunciation: /ˈfɛɹ.(ə)l/
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• Received-Pronunciation: /-ɹuːl/
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• General-American: /ˈfɛɹ.əl/
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• homophone: feral
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• homophone: ferryl
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• homophone: Farrell (Mary–marry–merry merger)
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• rhymes with -ɛɹəl
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From Middle English verel, virel, virole (“ferrule; metal pivot on the end of an axle”), altered under the influence of Latin ferrum (“iron”), from Old French virole (“ferrule”), from Latin viriola (“little bracelet”), diminutive of viria (“bracelet worn by men”), from Gaulish, from Proto-Celtic *weiros (“crooked”) (compare Middle Irish fiar (“bent, crooked”), Welsh gŵyr, Breton gwar (“curved”)), from Proto-Indo-European *weyh1ros (“threaded, turned, twisted”), from *weyh1- (“to turn, twist, weave”).

32 source translations are retained for this English entry.

• Czech: zpevňující kroužek — band or cap placed around a shaft to reinforce it or to prevent splitting
• Dutch: ring — band or cap placed around a shaft to reinforce it or to prevent splitting
• Dutch: metalen dop — band or cap placed around a shaft to reinforce it or to prevent splitting
• Dutch: beslagring — band or cap placed around a shaft to reinforce it or to prevent splitting
• German: Zwinge — band or cap placed around a shaft to reinforce it or to prevent splitting
• German: Hülse — band or cap placed around a shaft to reinforce it or to prevent splitting
• Hungarian: gyűrű — band or cap placed around a shaft to reinforce it or to prevent splitting
• Hungarian: fémgyűrű — band or cap placed around a shaft to reinforce it or to prevent splitting
• Hungarian: fémkarika — band or cap placed around a shaft to reinforce it or to prevent splitting
• Hungarian: fémpánt — band or cap placed around a shaft to reinforce it or to prevent splitting
• Irish: bianna — band or cap placed around a shaft to reinforce it or to prevent splitting
• Irish: fiú — band or cap placed around a shaft to reinforce it or to prevent splitting
• Irish: snong — band or cap placed around a shaft to reinforce it or to prevent splitting
• Italian: ghiera — band or cap placed around a shaft to reinforce it or to prevent splitting
• Polish: okucie — band or cap placed around a shaft to reinforce it or to prevent splitting
• Russian: металли́ческий ободо́к (metallíčeskij obodók) — band or cap placed around a shaft to reinforce it or to prevent splitting
• Slovak: obruč — band or cap placed around a shaft to reinforce it or to prevent splitting
• Slovak: obrúčka — band or cap placed around a shaft to reinforce it or to prevent splitting
• Slovak: objímka — band or cap placed around a shaft to reinforce it or to prevent splitting
• Spanish: casquillo — band or cap placed around a shaft to reinforce it or to prevent splitting
• Spanish: virola — band or cap placed around a shaft to reinforce it or to prevent splitting
• Spanish: regatón — band or cap placed around a shaft to reinforce it or to prevent splitting
• Spanish: recatón — band or cap placed around a shaft to reinforce it or to prevent splitting
• Spanish: contera — band or cap placed around a shaft to reinforce it or to prevent splitting
• Ottoman Turkish: نعل (naʼl) — band or cap placed around a shaft to reinforce it or to prevent splitting
• Czech: příruba — band holding parts of an object together
• Czech: objímka — band holding parts of an object together
• German: Halteband — band holding parts of an object together
• Polish: oprawka — band holding parts of an object together
• Catalan: virolla — billiards: plastic band attaching the tip to the cue
• French: virole — billiards: plastic band attaching the tip to the cue
• Spanish: casquillo — billiards: plastic band attaching the tip to the cue