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saltire Her.|ˈsæltaɪə(r)|
Forms: 4–5 sawturoure, 5 sawtire, 7 saltoyre, -tyr, 8 salteer, salter-, 6–9 saltier, 6– saltire.
[a. OF. saut(e)oir, sauteur, -our, -ouer, salteur, saultoir (from 13th c.), mod.F. sautoir, † (1) silken or hempen stirrup-cord (? forming a deltoid figure when in use), (2) stile to keep cattle from straying, (3) saltire:—L. saltātōrium (see saltatory).]
An ordinary in the form of a St. Andrew's cross, formed by a bend and a bend sinister, crossing each other; also, a cross having this shape. Hence, in saltire: crossed like the limbs of a St. Andrew's cross. per saltire (see quot. 1828–40).
a1400Morte Arth. 4182 He had sothely for-sakene the sawturoure engrelede, And laughte vpe thre lyons alle of whitte siluyre. c1420Anturs of Arth. xxiv, A sawtire engrelede of siluer fulle schene. a1550in Baring-Gould & Twigge W. Armory (1898) 5 Sa: a saltier engr: arg. 1562Leigh Armory 45 b, The seuenth particion is this. Partye per Saltier, Argent, and Sable. 1603Drayton Bar. Wars ii. xxiii, Upon his Surcote, valiant Nevil bore A Silver Saltoyre, upon Martiall Red. 1605Camden Rem. (1637) 346 King Henry the sixt had two feathers in saltire. a1695Wood Oxford (O.H.S.) III. 169 Two keyes in saltire. a1711Ken Hymns Evang. Poet. Wks. 1721 I. 6 A saltire, which the martyr'd Andrew bore. 1801Scott Fire-King xxxiv, The Saracens, Curdmans, and Ishamaelites yield To the scallop, the saltier, and crossleted shield. 1828–40Berry Encycl. Her. s.v., When the field of a coat, or any charge upon it, is divided by two diagonal lines, crossing each other,..it is termed per saltier. 1864Boutell Her. Hist. & Pop. xxi. (ed. 3) 359 Two pastoral staves, in saltire. 1970H. Braun Parish Churches viii. 104 The ‘saltire’ or diagonal cross formed of two struts crossing, was nearly always formed of two serpentine timbers. 1974Northern Times (Golspie, Sutherland) 2 Aug. 3/4 The gift was a saltire—a St. Andrew's Cross in blue and white with the arms of the cross outlined in gold thread.
attrib.1621Lady M. Wroth Urania 98 So farre asunder, as they made from corner to corner the fashion of a Saltier crosse. 1727Boyer Dict., Eng.-Fr. s.v., A Saltire Cross, Croix de S. André. 1851R. Hill in Gosse Nat. in Jamaica 466 Zig-zag lacings of a thickened tissue corresponding to the Saltier position of the Spider's legs. |