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Fescued vs Fescue - What's the difference?

fescued | fescue |

As verbs the difference between fescued and fescue

is that fescued is past tense of fescue while fescue is to use a fescue, or teach with a fescue.

As a noun fescue is

a straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.

fescued

English

Verb

(head)
  • (fescue)

  • fescue

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.
  • * Milton
  • to come under the fescue of an imprimatur
  • * 1997 , (Thomas Pynchon),
  • ‘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 .
  • An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum.
  • (Chapman)
  • The style of a sundial.
  • Verb

    (fescu)
  • To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue.
  • (Milton)

    fescue

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.
  • * Milton
  • to come under the fescue of an imprimatur
  • * 1997 , (Thomas Pynchon),
  • ‘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 .
  • An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum.
  • (Chapman)
  • The style of a sundial.
  • Verb

    (fescu)
  • To use a fescue, or teach with a fescue.
  • (Milton)