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fé. Old Irish word for a rod of yew or aspen, marked with an ogham inscription, kept in pre-Christian graveyards to measure corpses and graves. As a reference it expresses woe, calamity, and ill omen. By tradition, no one would touch it except for the person whose job it was to measure.

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Fe • symb. the chemical element iron.

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Fe symbol for the element iron .

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Fe See iron.

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Fe See IRON

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