Definition of "counterembattled"

counterembattled

adjective
not comparable
1. (heraldry) Having a lower edge or outline of alternating square indentations and extensions like battlements.
  Quotations
  Az., on a fesse, embattled, counterembattled, arg., between three cocks' heads, erased, of the last, beaked, combed, and wattled, gu., two roses, also gu.
  1860, Bernard Burke, A Selection of Arms Authorized by the Laws of Heraldry, page 34
  Shield of Beckingham. Argent a fess counterembattled between three escallops sable, impaling Gules within a border engrailed or a lion passant argent, late 14th-c.
  1996, Penny Hebgin-Barnes, The Medieval Stained Glass of the County of Lincolnshire, page 29