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"habick" and "teazel"/"thistle" as charges #177

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Please describe your suggested enhancement:
Please provide the above charges

Can you provide an example blazon?
Sable, a chevron ermine between two habicks in chief argent and a teazel in 
base slipped or.
  Gules, a crosier reversed in bend sinister, surmounted by a sword in bend dexter proper; on a chief argent a thistle leaved also proper.

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The "habick" was a tool used for holding the cloth firm whilst it was operated 
on by the teazel or other instrument. The word is probably a corruption of the 
"habiting hook," and it is represented on the arms of the Clothworkers' 
Company, as attached.
  "Thistle:" this plant, though occurring in coats of arms, is found more frequently as a badge; it is generally represented "slipped." The leaves are found also separate.
  With the thistle may be grouped the "teazel," used especially in dressing cloth, and it can be seen used both in the insignia of the Exeter Weavers' Company, and of the Cloth-workers.

Original issue reported on code.google.com by pku...@gmail.com on 5 Jul 2010 at 9:00

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Original comment by KarlWilcox36@gmail.com on 29 Oct 2011 at 12:23