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counterembattled

counterembattled adjective: having a lower edge or outline of alternating square indentations and extensions like battlements.

counterembattled: having a lower edge or outline of alternating square indentations and extensions like battlements
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Adjective

counterembattled (not comparable)

  1. Having a lower edge or outline of alternating square indentations and extensions like battlements.
    • Az., on a fesse, embattled, counterembattled, arg., between three cocks' heads, erased, of the last, beaked, combed, and wattled, gu., two roses, also gu.1860, Bernard Burke, A Selection of Arms Authorized by the Laws of Heraldry, page 34
    • Shield of Beckingham. Argent a fess counterembattled between three escallops sable, impaling Gules within a border engrailed or a lion passant argent, late 14th-c.1996, Penny Hebgin-Barnes, The Medieval Stained Glass of the County of Lincolnshire, page 29

Forms of counterembattled

alternative formcounter-embattled

Origin of counterembattled

From counter- + embattled.

Questions about counterembattled

What does counterembattled mean?
Counterembattled means having a lower edge or outline of alternating square indentations and extensions like battlements.
What part of speech is counterembattled?
Counterembattled is an adjective.

Words near counterembattled in the dictionary

  1. counterelectrophoresis
  2. counterelite
  3. counterelites
  4. counterembargo
  5. counterembargoes
  6. counterembattled
  7. counterembowed
  8. counteremotion
  9. counteremotions
  10. counterenamel
  11. counterenameled

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