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base point
base point n. Heraldry the middle point of the base of a shield (see sense 5).
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1605 W. Camden Remaines 175 Another..tooke onely a white shield, as all they did in olde time, that had exployted nothing: and in the base poynt thereof made a Painters pensill, and a little shell of colours.
1623 W. Camden Remaines (ed. 3) 163 Iohn de Clarence..bare..a Flour-de-lys Or, in base point.
1728 E. Chambers Cycl. (at cited word) A Lyon en Descent, is a Lion with his Head to one of the base Points.
1783 Gentleman's Mag. June 503 One piece in Chief, the head to the dexter side, the other half toward the dexter base point, Or.
1834 J. Burke Geneal. & Heraldic Hist. Commoners Great Brit. & Irel. I. 202/1 Arms—Arg. three chevronels, brased in the base point of the escutcheon.
1866 W. H. Whitmore Elem. Heraldry i. 15 There are three chief points in the upper part of the shield, three base points at the bottom, and three points in the centre portion, arranged perpendicularly.
1909 A. C. Fox-Davies Compl. Guide Heraldry ix. 141 The charges upon the bordure are often three, but more usually eight in number, in the latter case being arranged three along the top of the shield, one at the base point, and two on either side.
1969 J. Franklyn & J. Tanner Encycl. Dict. Heraldry 276/1 A plain point, being a horizontal section of the field, in base point.., defaced the shield of one who misled a superior.
1988 M. C. O'Laughlin Irish Bk. Arms vi. 174 In base a lizard vert, in the dexter base point a saltire couped gules.
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