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fescued

From Old French festu (modern fétu), from Proto-Romance festu, from Latin fest?ca (“stalk, stem, straw”).

fescue (countable and uncountable, plural fescues)

(countable) A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.
- 1997, Thomas Pynchon, Mason & Dixon
  ‘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
A hardy grass commonly used to border golf fairways in temperate climates. Any member of the genus Festuca.
(countable) An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum.
- c. 1610s, George Chapman, Batrachomyomachia
  with thy golden fescue play'dst upon
  Thy hollow harp
(countable) The style of a sundial.

fescue (third-person singular simple present fescues, present participle fescuing, simple past and past participle fescued)

To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue.
- 1641, John Milton, Animadversions upon The Remonstrants Defence Against Smectymnuus.

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