- sickle

SICKLE. An instrument of husbandry used for reaping corn. Two interlaced. P. 39, f. 13. No. 2. (ELVN)

SICKLE with teeth. i.d. f. 14. No. 2. (ELVN)

Sickle

рус. серп

:фр. faucille

:англ. sickle, reaping-hook

В гербах нескольких семей и представлен на илл. на полях.

:«Sable, three sickles interwoven argent» – SICKLEMORE, co. Suffolk.

:«Vert, on a fesse between two garbs in chief or and a sickle in base argent, handled of the second, an arrow barways gules headed and flighted of the third between two estoiles azure» – DUBERLY, co. Monmouth; granted 1766.

:«Gules, three reaping-hooks argent» – SASSELL or SAWSEFELE.

:«Per chevron sable and or; in base a moorcock of the first combed and wattled gules, in chief two pair of reaping-hooks endorsed and entwined, the blades argent the handles gold» – HOCKMORE, Buckyate, co. Devon,

:«Argent, three reaping-hooks, their bows conjoined in fesse[point] sable» – TREMERE, co. Cornwall.

:«De gueules, а trois faucilles d'argent emmanchées d'or les pointes au cœur de l'ecu» – MAYÈRE, Flandre.

Сходен pruning-hook, вероятно, отличающийся несколько более длинной рукоятью. Особенно заметны они в нашлемниках TAY и NANFANT, числом два и три соответственно.

:«Gules, three pruning-hooks, blades argent, handles or» – CUTCLIFFE, Ilfracombe, co. Devon.

Коса (scythe, фр. faux) также часто встречается.

:«Argent, a scythe in pale, blade in chief, the sned[or handle] in bend sinister sable; in the fesse point a fleur-de-lis of the last» – SNEYD, co. Stafford.

:«Argent, a scythe sable» – SNELSON, co. Chester; also Sir James LEE, co. Stafford.

:«Argent, a fesse gules between three scythes sable» – ALCOCK, co. Chester.

:«Gules, a scythe argent, handle in pale, blade in chief» – BOGHEY, co. Stafford.

:«Per chevron sable and or, in base a moorcock of the first, in chief four scythes conjoined two and two argent, the handles of the second» – HUCKMORE, co. Devon.

:«Or, on a chief gules three scythes erect argent» – SETHINGTON.

:«D'azur, а trois faux d'or» – FAUQUIÈRES, Bourgogne.

Коса есть в гербах фамилий Snelytone (London); Mainwaring; Kempley или Kemsey (co. Salop); Prayers или Praers (co. Chester); Partridge (co. Stafford); Ridler (co. Gloucester).

Следует заметить, лезвия серпа и косы (blades of the sickle and scythe; фр. rangier) иногда исп. без рукояти.

:«Gules, two scythe blades, the edges inward and points upward in saltire, the dexter surmounted of the sinister argent» – VAN MILDERT, Bishop of Llandaff, 1819; Durham, 1826-36.

:«Argent, the upper half of a sickle blade serrated on the inner[dexter] edge erect sable» – ZAKESLY.

:«De gueules, а trois rangiers d'argent» – SORNY DES GRESLETS, Champagne.

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