shakefork
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]shakefork (plural shakeforks)
- (obsolete) A fork for shaking hay; a pitchfork.
- (heraldry) A pall, especially one which stops short of the edges of the shield and which has pointed ends.
- 1722, Alexander Nisbet, A System of Heraldry Speculative and Practical, page 196:
- CUNNINGHAM of GLENGARNOCK, descended of a second Son of Henry Cuninghame of Kilmaures, and his Spouse Riddel Heiress of Glengarnock […] carry Argent, a Shakefork Sable, charged with a Cinque foil of the first: […]
- 1910, Arthur Charles Fox-Davies, Armorial Families: A Directory of Gentlemen of Coat-armour, page 403:
- CUNYNGHAME of Milneraig and Livingston (L. O., 1775). Argent, a shakefork sable between three fleurs-de-lis azure, one in chief and two in flank.
References
[edit]- “shakefork”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.