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Fescues vs Fescued - What's the difference?

fescues | fescued |

As a noun fescues

is plural of fescue.

As a verb fescued is

past tense of fescue.

fescues

English

Noun

(head)

    • 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)