English

edit
  This entry needs a photograph or drawing for illustration. Please try to find a suitable image on Wikimedia Commons or upload one there yourself!

Etymology

edit

From engrail +‎ -ment.

Noun

edit

engrailment (countable and uncountable, plural engrailments)

  1. The ring of dots around the edge of a coin or medal, etc.
  2. (heraldry) Indentation in curved lines, as of a line of division or the edge of an ordinary.

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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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 engrailment”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Anagrams

edit