a., divided into both bars and bends, with colors alternating. Barry-nebuly a., barry, but with the lines bounding the bar made wavy. Barry-pily a., divided into a number of equal ‘piles’ or wedge-shaped pieces, horizontally arranged, and alternately colored.
1611. Gwillim, Heraldry, V. iii. (1660), 369, iv. 371.
