A band or cap (usually metal) placed around a shaft to reinforce it or to prevent splitting. / (specifically, climbing) The metal spike at the end of the shaft of an ice axe.

(transitive) To equip with a ferrule.

A female given name. / A topographic surname.

(American spelling) An intense, heated emotion; passion, ardor. / (American spelling) A passionate enthusiasm for some cause. / (American spelling) Heat.

Of or containing iron. / (chemistry) Of compounds of iron in which it has a valence or oxidation number of 2.

(chiefly British spelling) alternative spelling of fertilization

Marked by extreme and violent energy. / Extreme or intense.

(physics) Exhibiting ferromagnetism.

Alternative form of nonferrous

The interstitial solid solution of carbon in body-centered cubic iron.