Sarcellé, Sarcelled

Cloven, Cutt

Cut through the middle. Birds and beasts thus cloven throughout and the halves placed back to back, as well as saltirewise, are to be found as bearings in Holland and Germany. 

These terms have at times been confused with cercelé or recercelé

Sarcelled has also been applied to crosses, as follow:

Cross paté sarcelled at foot

Cross quarterly quartered couped, the ends sarcelled and reverted.

This blazon describes a cross quartered couped, the extremities divided (sarcelled) and curved or reverted, somewhat like  the outward shape of the cross moline.

Demisarcelled: A Cross Paté  fixed and notched,  having a square piece cut out of it; sometimes blazoned at each end a label issuant but if the  label and field are alike, it is termed a cross demisarcelled. It is also by some called a cross charged at each end with a canton.  See Cross Demisarcelled