Meanings
- not comparablegovernmentHaving flanches (often of a specified tincture).
Fig. 58, Or, flanched gules.
1898, Edward Singleton Holden, A Primer of Heraldry for Americans, page 1271 more example
Gules, flanched ermine, on a chief azure three suns in splendour or.
1884, William Harvey, The Visitations of Bedfordshire: Annis Domini 1566, 1582, and 1634, page 99 - not comparableFlanged.
Farey says of the rails the "bars are flanched, 3 ft. long, weigh 38 lb., and are spiked down on to blocks of stone, of about 1½ cubic feet each, by means of an oak plug, inserted into a hole drilled in the stone."
1939 July, Charles E. Lee, “Swannington: One-Time Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 52 more examples
[...] improve this by giving the pipe or tube a flanched socket, which will be capable of receiving any of the rods commonly in use, whereby the brush may be put up the chimney, and these flanched sockets may be made[…]
1808, The Repertory of Arts, Manufactures, and Agriculture. Consisting of Original Communications, Specifications of Patent Inventions, Practical and Interesting Papers, Selected from the Philosophical Transactions and Scientific Journals of All Nations ..., page 92And I secure covers to my jointed hoops by rivets or screws, to keep the dirt from the grooved flanched hoops. Or I fix to the naves of the wheels hoops made of iron, brass, or any other proper metal, with three or more necked[…]
1811, The Repertory of Arts and Manufactures, page 24
Origin
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