Alternate Term: Lymphad

An ancient ship with one mast, and rowed with oars, which are usually represented.

a gammadion

gam-ma"di-on

A historical cross composed of the Greek letter “gamma” repeated four times. It is not attested in Period or SCA Armory.

Garb

Alternate Term: Garbe

A wheat sheaf.
A wheat sheaf; when of any other grain, it must be specified as “garbe of oats”. When the stalks are of one tincture and the ears of another, the term eared is used of the latter.

Gardant

a lion rampant gardat

gahr'dehnt

Alternate Term: Guardant

When a creature, such as a Lion, is looking at the spectator.
Said of an animal with the faced turned toward the spectator.
Indicating an animal shown in full face, turned toward the viewer.

Garnished

Ornamental.

Gauntlet

A mailed glove, respectively termed “sinister” and “dexter”.

Ged

A fish also known as the lucy or the pike.

Genet

An animal resembling a fox, but smaller; and usually depicted as gray, spotted with black.

Geratty

An old term from Semée.

Golp

a golp

gahlp

Alternate Terms: Wound, Wounds

A purple roundel. The term “wound” is used rarely for this charge.

Gonfanon

A small lance-flag, originally with small streams from the fly, but also applied loosely to the knights lance-pennon.

Gore

A charge formed of two curved lines. It may be on either side of the shield.

Gorged

With a collar, of any kind, round its neck, e.g. the Coronet around the next of the Unicorn supporter of the Scottish royal arms.
Collared. When used alone, a plain collar is meant; but animals are often gorged with a Coronet.

Gray

A badger.

Grice

A young wild boar.

Griffon

a griffon

grihf'fon

Alternate Term: Gryphon

The Griffin or Gryphon has the ears and body of a Lion, and the head and wings of an eagle. The front legs bear eagles feathers and talons, the back legs being of the Lion. The griffin was quite popular, embodying characteristics of the king of the beasts and the king of the birds. Originating around Minos and Greece, it was known as a sun animal and a guardian of both treasure and justice. Griffins depicted with radiating spikes in place of wings are supposed to be male Griffins. The Opinicus is a creature similiar to a griffin but has all four legs being that of a Lion.

Gules

gules

Gules is represented
as vertical lines

gyulz

Alternate Terms: Belie, Bloody, Mars, Ruby, Vermeil

Red. The shade is not laid down and can vary, so long as it is unmistakably red.
The color red, indicated on a blazon by engraved vertical lines.
“(Red is) invariable blazoned as ‘Gules’. While the shade is not laid down, it should of course be a clear and unambiguous red, although in the early Middle Age no distinction was made between red and purple. Both Bartolo (who described it as color purpureus sive rubeus) and Bonet place it second, immediately after gold, and Bonet had this to say: ‘the second colour is purple, that we call in French red or vermilion, and it represents fire... This colour too, according to ancient laws, should be rarely worn except by great princes or those nearest them in blood’. The Llyfr Dysgread Aufau, a Welsh treatise on heraldry probably written between 1394 and 1410, is even more explicit: ‘This colour is forbidden by civil law to be worn without permission, except by a prince; and whoever transgresses may be executed. And why is this colour ordained to a prince more than white or black or blue or golden colour? Because this colour represents cruelty, and a prince ought to be cruel to his enemies, and it behooves him to punish disorder.’ This restriction, however, appears to have been disregarded fairly early on in the Middle Ages, and red was used pretty widely among all levels of the knightly class. Sicily Herald equates it with the ruby, fire, the planet Mars, and with Wednesday and summer, and considers it symbolic of a sanguine temperament, nobleness, boldness, and the age of virility.” from Heraldic Imagination, The, by Rodney Dennys, Clarkson N. Potter, Inc., New York, 1975

Gurges

A whirlpool, a spiral.

Gusset

guhs'seht

A charge, probably fanciful, formed of two straight lines. It may be on either side, or two may be used in a pair.

Guze

a guze

A roundel stained sanguine.

Gyron

jy'rehn

One of the ordinaries, being a triangular sector of the shield, formed by half a bend line and half a Fess line meeting at the middle of the shield. When this is continued all the way round it is ‘Gyronny’.
A subordinary of triangular form having one of its angles at the Fess point and the opposite aide at the edge of the escutcheon. When there is only one gyron on the shield it is bounded by two lines drawn from the Fess point, one horizontally to the dexter side, and one to the dexter chief corner. – (u)Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, © 1996, 1998 MICRA, Inc.