Skip to content

sarcelie

A form of sarcelly — Having its end terminate in forked tips which curl around both ways, either like or else more pronounced than moline or anchory/ancré.

Scrabble 10

Ask AI about this wordChatGPT Claude Perplexity Google AI Grok

Meanings

adjectivesarcelie (not comparable)

not comparableobsoleteObsolete spelling of sarcelly.
Under the effigies an escoch. in brass inlaid, [bearing] a cross sarcelie, for Uvedall, impaling a lyon rampart surmounting a bastion, for Branche. Under the escocheon, on a plate of brass, this inscription in Gothick[…]
1909, Essex Archaeological Society, Transactions of the Essex Archaeological Society, page 186
1 more example
... not of that strégth which sometimes it carried, for vis vnita fortior and according to this example, may all crosses be borne parted, or deuided ouer the sheeld, be they Molyn, Nyle, Pattee, Sarcelie, Botonie, Florrie &c.
1586, Sir John Ferne, The blazon of gentrie, page 175

Cite this entry

APA

sarcelie. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sarcelie

MLA

“sarcelie.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sarcelie. Accessed November 3, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “sarcelie,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/sarcelie.

Source: sarcelie on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.