flanch

English edit

The arms of Prestwood are sable, a lion rampant between two flanches or.

Etymology edit

English dialect [Term?] (“a projection”), Old French flanche (“flank”). See flank.

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /flæntʃ/, /flɑːntʃ/

Noun edit

flanch (plural flanches)

A flange.
(heraldry) A bearing consisting of a circle segment encroaching on the field from the side, and always occurring in pairs.

Alternative forms edit

flaunch

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “flanch”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)