Fescue vs Rye - What's the difference?
fescue | rye |
A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.
* Milton
* 1997 , (Thomas Pynchon),
A hardy grass commonly used to border golf fairways in temperate climates. Any member of the genus Festuca .
An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum.
The style of a sundial.
To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue.
A grain used extensively in Europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder.
The grass Secale cereale from which the grain is obtained.
Rye bread.
(US, Canada) Rye whiskey.
* 1939 , (Raymond Chandler), The Big Sleep , Penguin 2011, p. 159:
Caraway
Ryegrass, any of the species of Lolium .
A disease of hawks.
As nouns the difference between fescue and rye
is that fescue is a straw, wire, stick, etc, used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read while rye is a grain used extensively in europe for making bread, beer, and (now generally) for animal fodder.As a verb fescue
is to use a fescue, or teach with a fescue.fescue
English
Noun
(en noun)- 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
- (Chapman)
Verb
(fescu)- (Milton)
rye
English
(wikipedia rye)Noun
- I bought a pint of rye at the liquor counter and carried it over to the stools and set it down on the cracked marble counter.
- (Ainsworth)