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Definition of Bendways
1. bendwise [adv] - See also: bendwise
Lexicographical Neighbors of Bendways
Literary usage of Bendways
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great by John Woody Papworth (1874)
"Sa. a fess engr. belw. three dexter hands couped at the wrist bendways arg. ...
Sa. a fess erm. betw. three dexter hands erect at the wrist and bendways arg ..."
2. The British Herald Or, Cabinet of Armorial Bearings of the Nobility & Gentry by Thomas Robson (1830)
"... bendways, each compartment being alternately of different tinctures mentioned.
See PI. 1, fig. 46. Barry indented, when the lines crossing the field ..."
3. A Treatise on Heraldry, British and Foreign: With English and French Glossaries by John Woodward, George Burnett (1892)
"PERI EN BANDE—Is said of a baton placed bendways. PERI EN BARRE—Is said of a
baton in bend-sinister (Plate XII., fig. 12). PERRONE, CROIX—One whose four ..."
4. Excerpta Historica: Or, Illustrations of English History (1833)
"In BC and D are two spears bendways, and in E four similar Arnu.—Quarterly, 1.
Or, three lions passant Sable, armed and leagued Gales; 2. ..."
5. The Church Heraldry of Norfolk: A Description of All Coats of Arms on by Edmund Farrer (1887)
"V. A fesse engrailed between three dexter hands couped at the wrist bendways (Bates
of Norfolk, Sable, on a fesse argent, between three dexter hands couped ..."
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