Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- In heraldry: Sharpened or cut to a point; ending in a point: said especially of a cross when the lowermost arm seems as if intended to be fixed in the ground.
- Less commonly, having a long sharp point attached to the cross or other bearing, and projecting beyond the bottom. Also fiché, fiched, figetive, fitched, fitchy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective (Her.) Sharpened to a point; pointed.
- adjective a cross having the lower arm pointed.
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The name probably relates to a poor translation of the name for the European polecat, which is a relative of the fisher and is called the fitch ferret, fichet or fitche.
YubaNet.com 2010
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The name probably relates to a poor translation of the name for the European polecat, which is a relative of the fisher and is called the fitch ferret, fichet or fitche.
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Arms. Or, a lion's gamb erased in bend, between two cross crosslets, fitche, gules.
Collins's peerage of England; genealogical, biographical, and historical 1812
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a shield of arms, within an orb ar.sa. a spread eagle of the first bearing an escutcheon of pretence ar. a lion ppr. in chief in base a chev.gu. charged with three escallop shells of the first, impaling a saltire sa. between four crosses fitche of the same.
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 14, No. 394, October 17, 1829 Various
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