one of the honourable ordinaries defined p. 3595, and represented in Plate CXLVII. This says G. Leigh, in his Accedence of Arm. 70, was anciently made of the height of a man, and driven full of pins, the use of which was to scall walls, &c. Upton says it was an instrument to catch wild beasts, whence he derives this word from saltus, i.e. "a fall," The French call this ordinary saltier, from sauter "to leap;" because it may have been used by soldiers to leap over walls of towns, which in former times were but low: but some modern authors think it is borne in imitation of St Andrew's cross.