Sentence:  ‘Now then,' Mason rapping upon the Table's Edge with a sinister-looking <WSD>Fescue</WSD> of Ebony, whose List of Uses simple Indication does not quite exhaust, whilst the Girls squirm pleasingly 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read.