enfiled

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] 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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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