Fescue

Definitions

1. A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.
   countable
2. A hardy grass commonly used to border golf fairways in temperate climates. Any member of the genus Festuca.
   countable, uncountable
3. An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum.
   countable
4. The style of a sundial.
   countable

Equivalents

Examples

“to come⟳ under the fescue of an imprimatur”

“‘Now then,’ Mason rapping upon the Table’s Edge with a sinister-looking Fescue of Ebony, whose List of Uses simple Indication does not quite exhaust⟳, whilst the Girls squirm pleasingly”

“with thy golden fescue play'dst upon Thy hollow harp”

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