engrailment

English

Etymology

engrail +‎ -ment

Noun

engrailment (countable and uncountable, plural engrailments)

1. The ring of dots around the edge of a coin or medal, etc.
2. (heraldry) Indentation in curved lines, as of a line of division or the edge of an ordinary.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 “engrailment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

• realignment