Tooth cut (heraldry)

In heraldry, the tooth cut is a cut form for dividing or splitting a coat of arms and belongs to the heraldic images . This sectional shape is different from the tip section by the larger number of peaks, then here called teeth, and their smaller (low) form and the tip angle.

Two different tooth cuts are common in heraldry . One time the teeth form an angle of 45 degrees and another time the teeth can be inclined to one side as a sawtooth cut . For the latter, the lateral position ( left or right ) must be indicated in the description of the coat of arms . Occasionally the tooth cut is assigned the point cut with a larger number of teeth, disregarding the point angle.

The teeth on the sides of a bar or pole emblazoned one toothed bar (dental bars) or toothed pole (tooth pole). The description of the coat of arms is analogous if a delimitation of the head or foot of the shield is made through the tooth cut . Here it becomes the toothed shield head or toothed shield base. Other heraldic images such as flank , board , etc. line up.

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  Sawtooth cut or sawtooth division

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  Tooth cut or tooth division

literature

• Maximilian Gritzner : Large and general book of arms. Books on Demand, Bremen 2012 (reprint of the original edition Bauer and Raspe, Nuremberg 1888), ISBN 978-3-95507-686-3 .