enfiled

English

The crest atop the arms of the City and Guilds of London Institute includes a sword enfiled with a mural crown.

The Badge of the Carrick Pursuivant of Arms is a chevron gules enfiled of a coronet or.

Etymology

French enfiler (“to pierce, thread”).

Adjective

enfiled (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Having some object, such as the head of a man or beast, impaled upon it.

Usage notes

• The piercing element is said to be "enfiled of" the thing that it pierces.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “enfiled”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• Enfield, Fielden, fielden, lifened, line fed