Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A small cross.
  • noun A crucible.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun A small cross.
  • noun obsolete A crucible.
  • adjective (Her.) Crossed again; -- said of a cross the arms of which are crossed. Seecross-crosslet.

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  • noun A small cross.

Etymologies

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From Anglo-Norman croiselette.

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Examples

  • If a conjecture may be hazarded, I would suggest that the coat was a modification of the ancient arms of Batishull: a crosslet in saltier, between four owls.

    Notes and Queries, Number 25, April 20, 1850 Various

  • There is no gold about the boy, but the crosslet of his sword;

    Song and Legend from the Middle Ages Porter Lander MacClintock 1906

  • The "cross crosslet" is formed of four Latin or Passion crosses placed foot to foot.

    The Worship of the Church and The Beauty of Holiness 1903

  • His Mark is a triangle of which the two upright sides are prolonged with a crosslet; in the centre a star, and on either side the gothic letters T H, the whole being on a very small shield hanging from a broken stump.

    Printers' Marks A Chapter in the History of Typography 1901

  • The arms were the three crosses crosslet and a chief or; crest, a double row of ostrich feathers out of a ducal coronet.

    Shakespeare's Family 1885

  • Museum, and bears three crosses crosslet and a chief Arderne.

    Shakespeare's Family 1885

  • British Museum, bearing a shield [534] "Ermine, on a bend three crosses crosslet, depending from a tree of three small branches," who might have been the same person.

    Shakespeare's Family 1885

  • On the side nearest the rock is a splayed opening ending outwardly in a crosslet large enough for three or four men to use at the same time.

    Wanderings by southern waters, eastern Aquitaine Edward Harrison Barker 1885

  • Only the eldest sons bore the Chevron chequy, the rest of the family bore the Beauchamp crosses crosslet.

    Shakespeare's Family 1885

  • Sir Thomas Arden and Sir John bore as arms the three crosses crosslet, and the chief or, the same as the legitimate family.

    Shakespeare's Family 1885

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  • In castle architecture, a loophole arranged in the form of a cross. Also crosslit.

    August 24, 2008