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| Keywords: TrefusisArms.png 50px These are canting arms from French fuseau <ref>From the French le fuseau comes fusiller le fusil a rifle etc referring to rifling in the barrel of a rifle which serves to spin a bullet giving it a straighter trajectory</ref> from Latin fusus <ref>Cassell's Latin Dictionary</ref> a spindle with the Anglo-Saxon place name element Tre- or Tref- hamlet farmstead estate which survives in Wales and the Southwest of England almost exclusively in Cornwall <ref>Padel Oliver J Place Names article published in Kain Roger Ravenhill William eds Historical Atlas of South-West England Exeter 1999 pp 88-94 esp 88-90</ref> The manor of Trefusis was thus originally held before the Norman Conquest of 1066 by an Anglo-Saxon named Fusis or Usis or similar thus Farmstead of Fusis own Lobsterthermidor <span class signature-talk ></span> 03 38 24 December 2015 UTC 2015 Trefusis arms | ||||
