couched

verb

1. (form-of, participle, past)simple past and past participle of couch

adj

1. (not-comparable)Of a chevron, issuing from the side rather than from the bottom or top of the shield; couché.

   “Holmes gives us the Arms of the Name of TOURNEY, Or, a Cheveron couched Gules, Fig. 15. IF it be turned to the other Side, says he, it is termed couched sinister;[…]”

   “Argent, on a fesse sable, three chevronels couched sinister of the field. - TRENOWITH, Corn.”