Var"veled (?), a.

Having varvels, or rings.

[Written also varvelled, and vervelled.]

⇒ In heraldry, when the jesses attached to the legs of hawks hang loose, or have pendent ends with rings at the tips, the blazon is a hawk (or a hawk's leg) jessed and varveled.

 

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