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† ˈfeasetraw Obs.
Also feas-, festraw(e.
[A corruption of festue, fescue, influenced by straw.]
= fescue (see quots.).
1595G. Markham Trag. Sir R. Grinuile xxiii, [She] with her eyes festrawe points a Storie. 1611Florio, Festuca, a feskue or feasetraw that children vse to point their letters. 1638Featley Struct. in Lyndomastigem I. 198 To set up a man of straw, and push him downe with a festraw. 1648tr. Senault's Paraphrase upon Job 408 Those Stones..make as little impression upon his body, as a feastraw would which the hand of a childe should push. 1660S. Fisher Rusticks Alarm iii. iii. 98 A..Type, Figure, Festraw, or Finger, that points [etc.]. |