Enfiled

Enfiled

Enfiled, (fr. enfilé). When a sword is drawn with the head of a beast, a coronet, or any other object so placed that the blade pierces it though, the sword is said to be enfiled with such an object; or in the case of rings, crowns, or fillets, though which a sword or crosier is passed, the term may also be used.

Gules, three keys enfiled with as many crowns or--Robert ORFORD, Bp. of Ely, 1303-10.

Azure, a sword palewise argent, enfiled in chief by a dexter hand couped fessways gules, all between two mullets pierced or--MAC MORUN.

Per pale azure and gules, over all a lion passant guardant holding a crosier enfiled with a mitre or; all within a bordure argent charged with eight text B's sable--BERMONDSEY, Cluniac Priory, Surrey.

Argent, on a cross patty gules a crosier enfiling a mitre or--Bishopric of CORK and ROSS.