counterembattled

adjective

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

Scrabble 23

Meanings

adjectivecounterembattled (not comparable)

alternative counter-embattled

  1. not comparablegovernmentHaving a lower edge or outline of alternating square indentations and extensions like battlements.

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

    1860, Bernard Burke, A Selection of Arms Authorized by the Laws of Heraldry, page 34
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    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.

    1996, Penny Hebgin-Barnes, The Medieval Stained Glass of the County of Lincolnshire, page 29

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