bendlet en · NOUN
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *bʰendʰ-der. Proto-Germanic *bindaną Proto-Indo-European *-yeti Proto-Indo-European *-éyeti Proto-Germanic *-janą Proto-Germanic *bandijaną Proto-West Germanic *bandijan Old English bendan Middle English benden English bend Proto-Indo-European *-lós Proto-Indo-European *-elós Proto-Italic *-elos Latin -lus Latin -ellus Old French -el Proto-Indo-European *-tós Proto-Italic *-tosder.? Late Latin -ittus Old French -et Old French -eletbor. Middle English -let English -let English bendlet From bend + -let.
Meanings
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A diminutive of the bend, of the same shape, but only half the width of the bend.
The shield was silver, charged with a red cross voided (that is, with the centre cut out and only the edges left), between in chief (that is, above the horizontal limb of the cross) two black dragon's wings, and in base two red daggers, and in the centre of the cross a black winged helmet; on a red chief (a broad band across the top of the shield), a silver pale (a broad vertical band), and thereon eight black arrows crossed X-wise, four and four, and encircled with a black band, between on the dexter three bendlets (narrow bands slanting from dexter chief to sinister base) enhanced (that is, raised above the centre), and on the sinister a fleur-de-lis, all of gold.
1956 July, Col. H. C. B. Rogers, “Railway Heraldry”, in Railway Magazine, page 479:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| bendlets | Number=Plur | lexicographic |
Coordinates
Translations (12)
ca cotissa (narrow bend) · de Strich (narrow bend) · fr cotice (narrow bend) · fi jänne (narrow bend) · ca llista (narrow bend) · sv kavel (narrow bend) · uk тонки́й перев'я́з (narrow bend) · de Strebe (narrow bend) · sv list (narrow bend) · sv smal balk (narrow bend) · fi raita (narrow bend) · sv kavle (narrow bend)