Definition of "palewise"
palewise
adverb
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(chiefly heraldry) In the direction of or positioned like a pale: vertically.
Quotations
Three roundels in chief and two horse-shoes palewise in base, probably intended for the arms of Daubeney and Ferrers.
1904, Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, page 511
In one shield the lis are positioned vertically or palewise, […] and the Poutrel lis were shown bend-wise in the glass at Prestwold church and pale-wise in Thomas Jenyns' Ordinary.
2020 January 9, Paul A. Fox, Great Cloister: A Lost Canterbury Tale: A History of the Canterbury Cloister, Constructed 1408-14, with Some Account of the Donors and their Coats of Arms, Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, page 540
adjective
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