Also Vandyck. [f. as prec.]
1. trans. To furnish or provide (some dress material) with vandykes or deep-cut points, after the manner represented in Vandyke’s paintings; to cut or shape with deep angular indentations. Chiefly in pa. pple.
1800. [implied in VANDYKED ppl. a.].
1828. Moir, Mansie Wauch, vil. 65. Long muslin frockies, Vandyked across the breast.
1869. Latest News, 5 Sept., 7. The muslin skirt is trimmed with a gathered flounce, vandyked at each edge.
1894. Weyman, Man in Black, 55. His dress was in the extreme of the fashion, his falling collar vandyked.
b. In general use.
1839. Thackeray, Fatal Boots, Feb. I made the leaves of the [needle-] book, which I vandyked very nicely, out of a piece of flannel.
1868. Fortn. Rev., Nov., 485. A shelf of limestone … not presenting a straight face, but vandyked, as it were, into a bewildering number of zigzags.
1887. Grosart, in Lismore Papers, Ser. II. I. 4. This document is indented or vandyked along its upper edge.
c. Said of the thing forming, or helping to form, the indentations.
1854. Chambers’ Jrnl., II. 323. Tongues of sea-sand … vandyking its borders.
1868. Lockyer, Guillemin’s Heavens (ed. 3), 228. It is easy to see numerous irregularities and transverse markings, vandyking and crossing the more visible features in various directions.
1898. Weyman, Castle Inn, 221. The peaks of three gables rose above them, vandyking the sky.
2. intr. To go or proceed in an irregular zigzag manner; to take a zigzag course. ? Obs.
1828. Moir, Mansie Wauch, xiii. 195. It behoves me … to beg pardon … for being forced whiles to zig-zag and vandyke.
1831. Fraser’s Mag., III. 27. He discussed two bottles of old Bordeaux, and, staggering to a bye lane, vandyked to Farningham.
1845. Alb. Smith, Fort. Scattergood Fam., xv. Foreign gentlemen … vandyked with indecision about the quay, as they tried to recollect the name of the hotel.
