galtrop

English

Noun

galtrop (plural galtrops)

  1. Archaic form of caltrop.
    • 1843, Norfolk (England). Sheriffs, Vicecomites Norfolciae: Or Sheriffs of Norfolk, from the First Year of Henry the Second to the Fourth of Queen Victoria:
      ... galtrop of the first. Grant 17 June, 1630. Kerrison, 1800 Sir Roger, of Brooke. Kett, Quarterly, gules and sable, a lion rampant argent, between three bezants.  […]
    • 1983, Sarah P. Sutherland, Masques in Jacobean Tragedy, New York : AMS Press:
      ... galtrop is Guardiano's own device.  […]
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