different between saltire vs engrailed

English

Etymology

From Middle French saultoir (“stile, saltire”) (compare French sautoir (“saltire”)), from sauter (“to jump, to leap”) + -oir (“suffix forming objects”), from Latin salt?re (“to dance, to jump”) + -orium, -oria.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?sæl.ta??/, /?s??l-/
• Hyphenation: sal?tire

Noun

saltire (plural saltires)

1. (heraldry) An ordinary (geometric design) in the shape of an X. It usually occupies the entire field in which it is placed.
2. The Saint Andrew's cross, the flag of Scotland.
3. The Saint Patrick's Cross, the pre 1922 flag of Ireland.

Synonyms

• (heraldry): crux decussata
• (flag of Scotland): Saint Andrew's cross

Translations

Anagrams

• A-lister, Altiers, Lasiter, Raelist, airtels, railest, realist, retails, saltier, slatier, tailers

English

Adjective

engrailed (not comparable)

1. (heraldry) having an edge or border indented with semicircles with points outwards. Usually the saltire and the dexter edge of the border of the shield both have cuts along their entire length the shape of crescent moons.

See also

• invected

Noun

engrailed (plural engraileds)

1. A European moth, Ectropis crepuscularia.
   • 1992, Richard Dickson, Amateur Entomologists' Society (Great Britain), A lepidopterist's handbook (page 10)

     […] a common total would be about thirty moths, equally divided between Early Greys and Engraileds.

Translations

Anagrams

• Geraldine, dregealin, realigned, redealing, releading