dial. [? var. of FAS, OE. fæs.] A fringe; anything resembling a fringe.
It is doubtful whether the first quot. belongs here: the word might be a. OF. faisse:—L. fascia band.
1558. Richmond. Wills (Surtees), XXVI. 128. A fashe of silke and sewed withe gold.
1847–78. in Halliwell.
1877. Holderness Gloss., Fash, the long hair of a horse’s legs.
b. dial. The tops of carrots, turnips or mangolds.
c. 1750. J. Collier (Tim Bobbin), Lanc. Dialect Gloss., Fash, the tops of turnips, etc.
1847. in Halliwell.
c. A rough edge or ridge left on nails, cast bullets, etc.
1831. J. Holland, Manuf. Metal, I. 215. The perfection of cut nails, as to workmanship, consists principally in the shank being well formed and free from fash. Ibid., 335. The teeth [of the saw] are severally filed to a sharp point, and the wiry edges, or fash, which may have been left by the punch, completely removed.
1867. Smyth, Sailor’s Word-bk., Fash, the mark left by the moulds upon cast bullets.
1888. Sheffield Gloss., Fash, a burr or roughness on anything.
Hence Fash a., hairy.
1877. Holderness Gloss., ‘His legs is varry fash.’
