flanched
flanched adjective: having flanches (often of a specified tincture).

Adjective
flanched (not comparable)
- Having flanches (often of a specified tincture).
- Gules, flanched ermine, on a chief azure three suns in splendour or.1884, William Harvey, The Visitations of Bedfordshire: Annis Domini 1566, 1582, and 1634, page 99
- Fig. 58, Or, flanched gules.1898, Edward Singleton Holden, A Primer of Heraldry for Americans, page 127
- Flanged.
- [...] improve this by giving the pipe or tube a flanched socket, which will be capable of receiving any of the rods commonly in use, whereby the brush may be put up the chimney, and these flanched sockets may be made[…]1808, The Repertory of Arts, Manufactures, and Agriculture. Consisting of Original Communications, Specifications of Patent Inventions, Practical and Interesting Papers, Selected from the...
- And I secure covers to my jointed hoops by rivets or screws, to keep the dirt from the grooved flanched hoops. Or I fix to the naves of the wheels hoops made of iron, brass, or any other proper metal, with three or more necked[…]1811, The Repertory of Arts and Manufactures, page 24
Origin of flanched
From flanch + -ed.
Questions about flanched
- What does flanched mean?
- Flanched means having flanches (often of a specified tincture).
- What part of speech is flanched?
- Flanched is an adjective.
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