- sickle

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.

[parc]