Meanings
- not comparablegovernmentDivided by perpendicular vertical lines like pales.
An oblong figure fesswise divided palewise, from one end a thick projection, and in chief a crescent.
2007, Colin Stewart Sinclair Lyon, Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, Oxford University Press, USA - not comparablegovernmentIn the direction of or positioned like a pale: vertically.
Erm. three longbows palewise in fess gu.
1874, John Woody Papworth, An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, page 3484 more examples
Three roundels in chief and two horse-shoes palewise in base, probably intended for the arms of Daubeney and Ferrers.
1904, Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, page 511Anchor: Placed palewise, unless otherwise blazoned
1965, Heather Child, Heraldic Design: A Handbook for Students, Genealogical Publishing Com, →ISBN, page 82In place of the rainbow there was, palewise on a field of gules, on either side of the shield, the broken lance which had caused the death of Henri II—Lacrymae hinc, hinc dolor was the motto. And to this symbolism of mourning was also[…]
2019 July 2, Jean Heritier, Catherine de Medici, Routledge, →ISBNIn one shield the lis are positioned vertically or palewise, […] and the Poutrel lis were shown bend-wise in the glass at Prestwold church and pale-wise in Thomas Jenyns' Ordinary.
2020 January 9, Paul A. Fox, Great Cloister: A Lost Canterbury Tale: A History of the Canterbury Cloister, Constructed 1408-14, with Some Account of the Donors and their Coats of Arms, Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 540
- not comparablegovernmentPale-like, vertical.
Party - in ancient heraldry, the word party, used alone, implied a palewise division of the field.
1983, Charles Boutell, Boutell's Heraldry, Frederick Warne Publishers1 more example
It is essentially the upper portion (or triangle) of the saltire met slightly above the fess point by a palewise line originating from the middle base. No varied field Bendy seems to have been adopted from this division.
1972, Marvin H. Pakula, Heraldry and Armor of the Middle Ages
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