Obs. Also feas-, festraw(e. [A corruption of festue, FESCUE, influenced by STRAW.] = FESCUE (see quots.).
1595. G. Markham, Trag. Sir Richard Grinuile, xxiii.
| And there, with her eyes festrawe paints a storie, | |
| Stranger then strange, more glorified then glorie. |
1611. Florio, Festuca, a feskue or feasetraw that children vse to point their letters.
1638. Featley, Struct. in Lyndomastigem, I. 198. To set up a man of straw, and push him downe with a festraw.
1648. trans. 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.
1660. S. Fisher, Rustick’s Alarm, III. iii. 98. A … Shadow Type, Figure, Festraw, or Finger, that points [etc.].
