palewise

English

The arms of Mönchengladbach are parted palewise (per pale) into azure and or, and charged with a crozier argent set palewise.

Etymology

pale +‎ -wise

Adverb

palewise (not comparable)

1. (chiefly heraldry) Divided by perpendicular vertical lines like pales.
   • 2007, Colin Stewart Sinclair Lyon, Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles, Oxford University Press, USA:

     An oblong figure fesswise divided palewise, from one end a thick projection, and in chief a crescent.

2. (chiefly heraldry) In the direction of or positioned like a pale: vertically.
   • 1874, John Woody Papworth, An Alphabetical Dictionary of Coats of Arms Belonging to Families in Great Britain and Ireland, page 348:

     Erm. three longbows palewise in fess gu.

   • 1904, Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, Transactions of the Devonshire Association for the Advancement of Science, Literature and Art, page 511:

     Three roundels in chief and two horse-shoes palewise in base, probably intended for the arms of Daubeney and Ferrers.

   • 1965, Heather Child, Heraldic Design: A Handbook for Students, Genealogical Publishing Com, →ISBN, page 82:

     Anchor: Placed palewise, unless otherwise blazoned

   • 2019 July 2, Jean Heritier, Catherine de Medici, Routledge, →ISBN:

     In place of the rainbow there was, palewise on a field of gules, on either side of the shield, the broken lance which had caused the death of Henri II—Lacrymae hinc, hinc dolor was the motto. And to this symbolism of mourning was also […]

   • 2020 January 9, Paul A. Fox, Great Cloister: A Lost Canterbury Tale: A History of the Canterbury Cloister, Constructed 1408-14, with Some Account of the Donors and their Coats of Arms, Archaeopress Publishing Ltd, →ISBN, page 540:

     In one shield the lis are positioned vertically or palewise, […] and the Poutrel lis were shown bend-wise in the glass at Prestwold church and pale-wise in Thomas Jenyns' Ordinary.

Synonyms

• paleways

Adjective

palewise (not comparable)

1. (chiefly heraldry) Pale-like, vertical.
   • 1972, Marvin H. Pakula, Heraldry and Armor of the Middle Ages:

     It is essentially the upper portion (or triangle) of the saltire met slightly above the fess point by a palewise line originating from the middle base. No varied field Bendy seems to have been adopted from this division.

   • 1983, Charles Boutell, Boutell's Heraldry, Frederick Warne Publishers:

     Party - in ancient heraldry, the word party, used alone, implied a palewise division of the field.

Further reading

• 1908, Arthur Francis Pimbley, Pimbley's Dictionary of Heraldry: Together with an Illustrated Supplement, page 49:

  Palewise - In the manner of a pale or pales; divided by perpendicular lines; to divide the field palewise. "Hath behind it palewise an abbot's crosier." -Wood : Fasti Oxon, i, 12.