Definition of "bendwise" []

• Diagonally; placed like a bend i.e. running from the dexter chief to the sinister base (adverb)

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• "This distinction between charges bendwise (or bendways) and charges in bend should be carefully noted."
• "Charges set diagonally on the field of a Shield, in the position in which a bend would occupy, are said to be “_in bend_” and are arranged in the same manner: but it would be quite possible to have three or more charges each disposed bendwise; but yet, nevertheless, when taken together occupying the position of a fesse and therefore described also as in fesse."
• "_ If a field be divided by lines drawn bendwise, and also by others drawn either vertically or horizontally, it is “_paly bendy_,” as No. 118, or “_barry bendy_,” as No. 119."