I grabbed up a wooden three-foot ruler and tried to swat him.
The first day of school is evoked by "a wooden ruler (with no teeth marks yet)."
If you broke the rules, you risked a crack on the back of the hands with a big, wooden ruler.
Ooo; a smack across the palm with a wooden ruler can create quite an impression.
He hung the barrels from a piece of string and rapped them with a wooden ruler.
Also, teachers used wooden rulers to hit students on hands and knuckles or slapped them as a means of punishment.
"No, but I know what a wooden ruler feels like."
A wooden ruler that may have been the one used by my father at this time gives 50 mm.
Pounds opened his desk drawer and pulled out an old wooden ruler.
A big splinter of wood off a plank didn't, but a wooden ruler did.