climant

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English

A goat climant.

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Adjective

climant (not comparable)

  1. (heraldry, of a goat, postpositive) Climbing; represented with its front legs raised.
    Coordinate terms: rampant, salient
    • 1842, John Burke, Bernard Burke, A General Armory of England, Scotland, and Ireland:
      Sa. three goats, climant, ar. GARFORTH (Yorkshire).
    • 1883, Notes and Queries, page 252:
      The nearest to the quartered coat, "Vert, a goat passant arg.," that I find there is "Vert, a goat climant arg.," assigned by Papworth to Felbury, of Northumberland, and similarly blazoned and assigned by Sir Bernard Burke 
    • 1894, Henry Gough, James Parker, A Glossary of Terms Used in Heraldry, page 287:
      Gules, a goat climant argent, attired or — BARWELL. Gules, a goat salient argent, armed or — BENSTED. Argent, a goat rampant sable, the head and part of the neck of the first armed vert — DE BUCKTON.
    • 1920, Numismatic Chronicle, and Journal of the Royal Numismatic Society, page 240:
      Obv. — A goat climant within a border of 12 cinquefoils interrupted by the type. Rev. — A device of doubtful interpretation intersected by two crosses in saltire and surmounted by a third.

Further reading

  • 2009 June 1, Charles Norton Elvin, Elvin, Dictionary of Heraldry, Genealogical Publishing Com, →ISBN, page 31:
    Climant. A goat in the same position as rampant, is said to be climbing or climant.