flanched

English

The arms of Prestwood have a field sable, flanched or.

Etymology

From flanch +‎ -ed.

Adjective

flanched (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Having flanches (often of a specified tincture).
   • 1884, William Harvey, The Visitations of Bedfordshire: Annis Domini 1566, 1582, and 1634, page 99:

     Gules, flanched ermine, on a chief azure three suns in splendour or.

   • 1898, Edward Singleton Holden, A Primer of Heraldry for Americans, page 127:

     Fig. 58, Or, flanched gules.

2. Flanged.
   • 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 92:

     [...] 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 […]

   • 1811, The Repertory of Arts and Manufactures, page 24:

     And 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 […]

   • 1939 July, Charles E. Lee, “Swannington: One-Time Railway Centre”, in Railway Magazine, page 5:

     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."

References

• “flanched”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.