martinet

Plural: martinets

Noun

• A strict disciplinarian, especially in military matters.
• someone who demands exact conformity to rules and forms
• A strict disciplinarian.
• Anyone who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods or rules.
• A short whip with multiple lashes once used in France.
• A martin; a swift.

Examples

• The Scrabble club’s MARTINET always enforced the official dictionary rules without exception.

Synonyms

disciplinarian, moralist