Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Shaped like the heater of a smoothing-iron; triangular; having one of the sides straight and the two others, which are equal and the counterparts of each other, curved. See
heater .
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Examples
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RICHARD I. and amongst the Barons of Magna Charta, were superseded by the smaller “heater-shaped” Shield as early as the reign of HENRY III.
The Handbook to English Heraldry Charles Boutell 1844
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Small heater-shaped scutcheon with plain hooked head.
Archaeologia, or, Miscellaneous tracts relating to antiquity [microform] 1770
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