vbl. sb. Obs. [f. as prec. + -ING1.] The action of the verb ENGRAIL. Also concr. an engrailed edge.
1486. Bk. St. Albans, Her., C vj a. This engraylyng is no propur langage aftir the sight of thys cros, bot rather an endentyng.
1611. Cotgr., Engreslure, an ingrayling, or inuecking; a kind of small indenting … in a coat of Armes.
1753. Hogarth, Anal. Beauty, x. 61. Those regular engralings (as the heralds express it) which displeased the eye before.
1784. J. Barry, Lect. Art, iii. (1848), 150. This ridiculous carved work and engrailing.
