tirret

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English

Noun

tirret (plural tirrets)

  1. (heraldry) A manacle, shackle, or swivel.
    • 1813, Barak Longmate (the Younger), The Pocket Peerage of England, Scotland and Ireland; ..., page 244:
      Sinister, an unicorn, argent; armed, unguled, mained, tufted, ducally collared, or; on the shoulder, a tirret, or. MOTTO.
    • 1885, The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, page 209:
      A bendlet between two tirrets, over all a lion, rampant. […] On the Shield of dripstone of Door, a rose within a wreath; the tirrets are profusely used on the wooden ceiling and in the moulding, both external and internal. The wreath is also met with several times.
    • 1886, James E. Doyle, The Official Baronage of England: Showing the Succession, Dignities, and Offices of Every Peer from 1066 to 1885, with Sixteen Hundred Illustrations, page 190:
      […] tufted, ducally gorged, with chain reflexed over the back, & charged on the shoulder with a tirret or.

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Verb

tirret

  1. inflection of tirre:
    1. simple past
    2. past participle
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