German help

[mudskipper]

Yup, see the second edit to my reply above.

Ah, sorry, didn't see your edit.

Yes - that sounds like it. It is chequered.

[mudskipper]

Well "schacht" means "shaft", according to Google translate. So I guess the full word is some archaic German heraldic term along the lines of "beshafted".

edit: try running this through Google translate.

edit #2: Done it, out of curiosity:



So evidently it means "chequered" (or whatever the British heraldic equivalent is).

Brilliant - ta - "you must spread it around" etc. - I'll owe you!

[mudskipper]

If the verb is schachten (i.e. to shaft), then "shafted" would be right, if that makes any sense.

"Schach" is chess, so I wonder if it's some kind of reference to a chequer pattern? That'd be my wild uneducated (well intermediate German) guess.

You should be on eggheads! Cheers.

[VectraMan]

Pretty good uneducated guess. Even if OwlHoot went back and edited his post to make it look like he thought of it first.

[Sysman]

"Schach" is chess, so I wonder if it's some kind of reference to a chequer pattern? That'd be my wild uneducated (well intermediate German) guess.

A good guess. Sometimes lateral thinking for translations can lead you up a blind alley, but not in this case.

Shoving "chequered" in on Leo gives amongst other results schachbrettartig - "chess board like".