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FER DE FOURCHETTE

Volume 8 · 78 words · 1810 Edition

FER DE FOURCHETTE, in Heraldry, a cross having at each end a forked iron, like that formerly used by soldiers to rest their muskets on. It differs from the cross-fourche, the ends of which turn forked; whereas this has that sort of fork fixed upon the square end. See HERALDRY.

FER de Moulin, Milbride, Inke de Moulin, in Heraldry, is a bearing supposed to represent the iron ink, or ink of a mill, which sustains the moving millstone.