trangle

English

Arms depicting a trangle supported by hooks, supporting a cauldron.

Etymology

From or related to French trangle.

Noun

trangle (plural trangles)

1. (heraldry, rare) One of the (rarely used) diminutives of the fess (bar) or chief, a fillet or closet.
   • 1722, Alexander Nisbet, A System of Heraldry Speculative and Practical, page 73:

     Bendy of fix Gules and Argent; on a Chief of the last, a Rose of the first, supported by a Trangle (the Diminutive of a Barr. A Fillet , with the English, for the Diminutive of a Chief, of which before) Or, charged with a […]

   • 1894, John Woodward, A Treatise on Ecclesiastical Heraldry, page 298:

     The quartered arms of the See were usually arranged in an oval escucheon I. Gules, […] an eagle sable, crowned with an antique crown and supported by a trangle held in its claws, is brochant over the stem of the tree.

Anagrams

• Largent, langret, tangler