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Webster 1913 Edition
Palewise
Pale′wiseˊ
,adv.
(Her.)
In the manner of a pale or pales; by perpendicular lines or divisions;
as, to divide an escutcheon
. palewise
Definition 2024
palewise
palewise
English
Adverb
palewise (not comparable)
- (heraldry, archaic) In the manner of pales, divided by perpendicular lines.
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.120:
- Sheer limestone cliffs rose cannellate and palewise and laced with caves where small forktailed birds set forth against a sky reaching blue and moteless to the sun itself.
- 1979, Cormac McCarthy, Suttree, Random House, p.120: