sarcelled

English

Etymology

From Old French cercel, from Latin circellus, diminutive of circulus (“circle”).

Adjective

sarcelled (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) Sarcelly, having curled ends (compare moline).
   • 1828, William Berry, Encyclopaedia Heraldica, Or Complete Dictionary of Heraldry, page 9:

     Cross, quarterly, quartered, couped, ends sarcelled and reverted.

2. (heraldry) Cut through the middle, or voided with the ends left open (unconnected).

   Synonyms: sarcelé, sarcellée

   • 1828-40, Berry, Encycl. Her. I"

     Cross pattée sarcelled at bottom in the form of a ᴧ reversed.

   • 1847, Henry Gough, A Glossary of Terms Used in British Heraldry: With a Chronological Table, Illustrative of Its Rise and Progress, page 101:

     Cross moline sarcelled, or voided throughout, cross recercelée, or recersile, or recercelée voided or disjoined, which has also been called a cross fleury biparted. This is borne by the names of Knollys, or Knowles, and Verney. Gules, a cross moline sarcelled argent. BEC. […]

Usage notes

• See usage notes about sarcelly.

References

• “sarceled”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.