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If one wishes embattling on both the chiefmost and [[base]]most lines, then the ordinary is [[blazoned]] ''embattled counterembattled''. |
If one wishes embattling on both the chiefmost and [[base]]most lines, then the ordinary is [[blazoned]] ''embattled counterembattled''. |
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Revision as of 11:35, 19 July 2004
In heraldry, a line which is drawn embatted is made up of a series of square projections, and looks like the battlements of a castle. On any two edged ordinary with a horizontal component, (fess, chevron and bend), only the chiefmost line is embattled.
Counterembattled
If one wishes embattling on both the chiefmost and basemost lines, then the ordinary is blazoned embattled counterembattled.