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A single charge, many times repeated, and small in size, whether with or without any special orderly disposition, is said to be Semée_--strewn, that is, or scattered over the field, as seed is sown by the hand; or, if the charges are very small or very numerous, the term poudrée or powdered has sometimes been used.

—The Handbook to English Heraldry

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A past participle of strew.

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I mounted the volcanic ashes with which it is strewn, and got to the top. — James Nasmyth: Engineer, An Autobiography.
He was now the owner of that crude vessel anchored offshore and a fleet of sailing ships and steamers strewn from the English Channel to the Bering Strait Not this time, he thought. — Teresa Medeiros - Once An Angel
A single charge, many times repeated, and small in size, whether with or without any special orderly disposition, is said to be Semée_--strewn, that is, or scattered over the field, as seed is sown by the hand; or, if the charges are very small or very numerous, the term poudrée or powdered has sometimes been used. — The Handbook to English Heraldry
An oblong figure of any tincture: Billetée_--strewn with “Billets”: Nos. — The Handbook to English Heraldry
Landless piled upon it the dead wood with which the ground was strewn, and the flames leaped and crackled, sending up thin blue smoke against the hillside and reddening the bosom of the placid stream. — Prisoners of Hope A Tale of Colonial Virginia