virgule

noun5

1. •
   (old-fashioned) A slash, ⟨/⟩ or ⟨／⟩.
2. •
   (old-fashioned) Used to mark line breaks within quotes.
3. •
   (old-fashioned) A pipe, ⟨|⟩.
4. •
   (old-fashioned) Used to mark metrical feet.
5. •
   (historical) A medieval punctuation mark similar to the slash ⟨/⟩ or pipe ⟨|⟩ and used as a scratch comma and caesura mark.

   • Other Chaucerian manuscripts had the virgule (or virgil or oblique: /) at the middle of lines. — 1990