pheon
[ fee-on ]
/ ˈfi ɒn /
noun Heraldry.
a charge representing an arrowhead with widely spread barbs.
Also called
broad arrow.
Origin of pheon
First recorded in 1480–90; earlier
feon, of uncertain origin
Words nearby pheon
phenytoin,
pheo-,
pheochrome,
pheochromocyte,
pheochromocytoma,
pheon,
pherae,
pheresis,
pheromone,
pheromones,
phew
Example sentences from the Web for pheon
The crest was a boar's head erased, azure, langued gules, pierced with a pheon.
Crest, in a mural coronet argent, a pheon sable, with a sprig of laurel issuing therefrom proper.
The Curiosities of Heraldry |Mark Antony LowerI have before me a coin of Stralsund, minted in the fourteenth century, with the Pheon for the principal type.
Query, When was the Pheon, which it is supposed to be, first used as an heraldic device?