or Cheveron, in heraldry, one of the honourable ordinaries of a shield, representing two rafters of an house, joined together as they ought to stand; it was anciently the form of the priestesses head attire: some say, it is a symbol of protection; others, of constancy; others, that it represents knights spears, &c. It contains the fifth part of the field, and is figured as in Plate LV. fig. 2.

A chevron is said to be abated, when its point does not approach the head of the chief, nor reach farther than the middle of the coat; mutilated, when it does not touch the extremes of the coat; cloven, when the upper pieces are taken off, so that the pieces only touch at one of the angles; broken, when one branch is separated into two pieces; couched, when the point is turned towards one side of the escutcheon; divided, when the branches are of several metals, or when metal is opposed to colour; inverted, when the point is turned towards the point of the coat, and its branches towards the chief.

Per Chevrons, in heraldry, is when the field is divided only by two single lines, rising from the two base points, and meeting in the point above, as the chevron does.