sarcelled

adjective

1. Sarcelly, having curled ends (compare moline).

   Cross, quarterly, quartered, couped, ends sarcelled and reverted.

2. Cut through the middle, or voided with the ends left open (unconnected).

   Cross pattée sarcelled at bottom in the form of a ᴧ reversed.

   1828-40, Berry, Encycl. Her. I"

Where it comes from

From Old French cercel, from Latin circellus, diminutive of circulus (“circle”).

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry sarcelled (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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