- rock

ROCK. A stony mass. P. 42, f. 56.

                Emblem of Security. (ELVN)

Rock

рус. скала

:фр. rocher

:англ. rock

Как правило изображается в естественном виде, возникающей в оконечности щита, обнаруживается только в поздних гербах, г.о. в шотландских. Не следует путать с шахматной ладьёй (roc, chess rook) в старых гербах.

:«Argent, a castle triple towered and embattled sable, masoned of the first and topped with three fanes gules, windows and portcullis shut of the last situated on a rock proper» – Burgh of EDINBURGH.

:«Argent, a fesse gules between three rocks sable» – SWANTON.

:«Argent, on a bend sable three rocks of the field» – BONERY.

:«Azure, a sea in base, in it a rock proper, on which stands a lion rampant argent gorged with an open crown or» – M'DOWALL, Scotland, 1604.

:«Per fesse wavy argent and sable; in base three fleurs-de-lis argent; in chief the Rock of Gibraltar surrounded by fortifications and the sea proper; on a canton gules a sword erect proper, hilt and pomel or, entwined with a palm branch» – CURTIS, co. Hants. [Baronetcy 1784.]

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