Fescue

·noun The style of a dial.

II. Fescue ·noun A grass of the genus Festuca.

III. Fescue ·noun An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum.

IV. Fescue ·vi & ·vt To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue.

V. Fescue ·noun A straw, wire, stick, ·etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.

fescue
(pronounced also VESTER), a bodkin, &c. to point with in teaching children to read. Cornwall. Quasi ...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose