flanch

English

The arms of Prestwood are sable, a lion rampant between two flanches or.

Etymology

English dialect [Term?] (“a projection”), Old French flanche (“flank”). See flank.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /flæntʃ/, /flɑːntʃ/

Noun

flanch (plural flanches)

1. A flange.
2. (heraldry) A bearing consisting of a circle segment encroaching on the field from the side, and always occurring in pairs.

Alternative forms

• flaunch

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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