fescue
“A small wire [stick, straw, etc.], by which those who teach
to read point out the letters”
(Johnson's Dict.
), THE TWO NOBLE KINSMEN, ii.
3. 34 (Peele, in his Honour of the Garter, describing
the Englishmen of former days, says:
“They went to school to put together towns,
And spell in France with fescues made of pikes.”
Works, p. 586, ed. Dyce, 1861).
“They went to school to put together towns,
And spell in France with fescues made of pikes.”
Works, p. 586, ed. Dyce, 1861).
