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Canting arms
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Canting heraldry
Canting arms
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Canting heraldry
(Her.)
, bearings in the nature of a rebus alluding to the name of the bearer. Thus, the
Castletons
bear three castles, and Pope Adrian IV. (Nicholas Breakspeare) bore a broken spear.
Webster 1913