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from The Century Dictionary.

  • In heraldry:
  • Ending in a three-lobed figure or trefoil: said especially of a cross of which each branch is so finished.
  • Decorated with triple leaves or flowers elsewhere than at the end: thus, a bend treflé has such flowers along one side, usually the upper or sinister side, the trefoil flowers often resembling the upper parts of fleurs-de-lis.
  • noun A trefoil; any object forming or representing a trefoil.
  • noun In fortification, a species of mine in the form of a trefoil.
  • noun In heraldry, same as trefoil, 4.

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

  • noun (Fort.) A species of time; -- so called from its resemblance in form to a trefoil.
  • adjective (Her.) Having a three-lobed extremity or extremities, as a cross; also, more rarely, ornamented with trefoils projecting from the edges, as a bearing.

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