Counterembattled

Quick meaning: Counterembattled is an adjective meaning (heraldry) Having a lower edge or outline of alternating square indentations and extensions like battlements.

Meaning

(heraldry) Having a lower edge or outline of alternating square indentations and extensions like battlements.

Example Sentences

Az., on a fesse, embattled, counterembattled, arg., between three cocks' heads, erased, of the last, beaked, combed, and wattled, gu., two roses, also gu.

Shield of Beckingham. Argent a fess counterembattled between three escallops sable, impaling Gules within a border engrailed or a lion passant argent, late 14th-c.

Word Forms

• counter-embattled

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