Crossword-Solution: BENDWISE 8 letters, 1 clue 🏆 scrabble score: 14

Charges set diagonally on the field of a Shield, in the position in which a bend would occupy, are said to be “_in bend_” and are arranged in the same manner: but it would be quite possible to have three or more charges each disposed bendwise; but yet, nevertheless, when taken together occupying the position of a fesse and therefore described also as in fesse.

This distinction between charges bendwise (or bendways) and charges in bend should be carefully noted.

Bends follow the same fashion, early bends engrailed or indented being some four or more fusils joined bendwise by their blunt sides, bends of less than four fusils being very rare.

Fraunceys.] Henry of Lancaster, second son of Edmund Crouchback, bore the arms of his cousin, the king of England, with the difference of "a baston azure." Adam Fraunceys (14th century) bore "Party gold and sable bendwise with a lion countercoloured." The parting line is here commonly shown as "sinister." The Cheveron, a word found In medieval building accounts for the barge-boards of a gable, is an Ordinary whose form is explained by its name.

Mortimer.] Another Ordinary is the Giron or Gyron--a word now commonly mispronounced with a hard "g." It may be defined as the lower half of a quarter which has been divided bendwise.