vert

Etymology

Definitions

1. 1

   A green colour, now only in heraldry

   A green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise.

   • The field of the arms (shield), which is vert (green), represents the open country of Great Britain.
2. 2

   Green undergrowth or other vegetation growing in a forest, as a potential cover for deer.

3. 3

   The right to fell trees or cut shrubs in a forest.

   • “I understand thee,” said the King, “and the Holy Clerk shall have a grant of vert and venison in my woods of Warncliffe.”
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   1. 4

      In blazon, of the colour green.

   2. 5

      Abbreviation of vertical.

   3. 6

      In sport, a type of bicycle stunt competition.

   4. 7

      A vertical surface used by skateboarders or skiers.

   5. 8

      Vertebrate.

   6. 9

      To turn.

      • Theſe are Ani-mad-versions indeed, when a Writer’s words are madly verted, inverted, perverted, againſt his true intent, and their Grammaticall ſenſe.
      • Hippias not only came aboveground, he flew about in the very skies, verting like any blithe creature of the season.
      • A lady had ulceration of the interior of the body of the uterus, which was not flexed or verted:[…].
   7. 10

      Vertex.

The neighborhood

• neighborvert russe
• neighborvt. in heraldic contexts.