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martlet
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Martlet \Mart"let\, n. [F. martinet. See Martin the bird, and cf. Martinet a disciplinarian.]
(Zo["o]l.) The European house martin.
[Cf. F. merlette.] (Her.) A bird without beak or feet; -- generally assumed to represent a martin. As a mark of cadency it denotes the fourth son.
Wiktionary
n. (context heraldiccharge English) A mythical bird, often used in heraldry, which possessed no feet.
Wikipedia
A martlet in English heraldry is a heraldic charge depicting a stylized bird similar to a house martin or swallow, though missing feet. It should be distinguished from the merlette of French heraldry, which is a duck-like bird with a swan-neck and chopped-off beak and legs.
Martlet is an English heraldic charge depicting a stylized bird of the swallow family.
Martlet may also refer to:
- The Martlet, a student newspaper at the University of Victoria in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada
- Martlet (rocket), a project of CU Spaceflight to develop a small rocket which can be launched from a balloon
- McGill Martlets, the women's athletic teams that represent McGill University in Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- Martlet House, a building which was the Montreal headquarters of the Seagram Company
- Martlet 3 and other Project HARP#Martlet projectiles, test projectiles fired or designed during Project HARP
- Operation Martlet, a British diversionary operation in the Second World War in June 1944 in France
- Southern Martlet, single-seat biplane sports aircraft
- Grumman Martlet, the original name given to Royal Navy Grumman F4F-4 Wildcat carrier fighters
- Martlet, name given to the Lightweight Multirole Missile, a British missile under development
Usage examples of "martlet".
Over that saddle runs the paven way leading from the Brankdale road to the Lion Gate, and within the gate is that garden of the grass walk between the yews where Lessingham stood with the martlet nine weeks before, when first he came to Demonland.
Then night fell, and they were speaking in the dark, the woman called Kylie leading one side, and Martlet leading the other.
Lessingham came down from the chariot, and the little black martlet circled about his head, showing him a yew avenue leading from the gates.
At length when winter was gone in middle earth, and the spring far spent, back came that last little martlet on weary wing, she they had long given up for lost.
I made sure of it last summer, according to the word of her little martlet that first found it for us.
With a glorious burst of unearthly song, the martlet seized the string in its talons and, wings whirring, flew straight up into the sky.
Clovis, as he sat in the smoking-room after lunch, talking fitfully to Jane Martlet in the intervals of putting together the materials of a cocktail, which he had irreverently patented under the name of an Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
The miracle lost some of its usefulness from the fact that Dora wrote the same day postponing the date of her visit, but, at any rate, Clovis holds the record as the only human being who ever hustled Jane Martlet out of the time-table of her migrations.
Your arms are a martlet in fess upon a field azure, and now that I think of it, the second daughter of your great-grand-father married the son of one of the La Noues of Andelys, which is one of our cadet branches.
Morian listened silently, already armed and ready, the roundels and martlet on his green surcoat gleaming in the early morning light.
Every cadet line was represented, wearing the Tor Bezaemar martlet worked into pendants, rings and brooches, combined with the badge of every line subsumed into the Name over the generations.
Little black martlets perched on her either shoulder, and a dozen more skimmed the air above her head, so swift of wing that scarcely the eye might follow them.
No living thing they encountered save only the Queen and her little martlets, but all things desirous were ministered unto them by unseen hands and all royal entertainment.
Yet have I ceased not since ye were here to search and to inquire, and sent my little martlets west and east and south and north after tidings of him thou mamedst.
The sweetness of the almond trees was the sweetness of spring in the air, and spring was in the face of that Queen as she came with her attendants up the shining steps, her little martlets circling about her or perching on her shoulders: she to whom the Gods of old gave youth everlasting, and peace everlasting in Koshtra Belorn.