tirret

English

Noun

tirret (plural tirrets)

1. (heraldry) A manacle, shackle, or swivel.
   • 1813, Barak Longmate (the Younger), The Pocket Peerage of England, Scotland and Ireland; ..., page 244:

     Sinister, an unicorn, argent; armed, unguled, mained, tufted, ducally collared, or; on the shoulder, a tirret, or. MOTTO.

   • 1885, The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, page 209:

     A bendlet between two tirrets, over all a lion, rampant. […] On the Shield of dripstone^[sic] of Door, a rose within a wreath; the tirrets are profusely used on the wooden ceiling and in the moulding, both external and internal. The wreath is also met with several times.

   • 1886, James E. Doyle, The Official Baronage of England: Showing the Succession, Dignities, and Offices of Every Peer from 1066 to 1885, with Sixteen Hundred Illustrations, page 190:

     […] tufted, ducally gorged, with chain reflexed over the back, & charged on the shoulder with a tirret or.

Anagrams

• ritter, territ, triter

Norwegian Bokmål

Alternative forms

• tirra

Verb

tirret

1. inflection of tirre:
   1. simple past
   2. past participle