(of a head or limb) depicted as cut off in a jagged line.
- ‘It is therefore important when examining a slaver on foot to see that it is struck with the obligatory lion passant or leopard's head erased mark.’
- ‘The Arms are blazoned as: Gules, a chevron between a griffin's head erased or in base, and two bezants in chief.’
- ‘The hawks' heads erased Gules reflect the arms of the Chief of Clan MacNeacail.’