Quote Originally Posted by switchblade5984
A pelican vulning herself...
Thank you for my vocabulary word for the day.

From Pimbley's Dictionary of Heraldry:

Vulning - Wounding; in the act of wounding. This term is applied more particularly to the pelican, which, when shown in profile, is generally represented as wounding her breast. [PELICAN IN HER PIETY.]

from Latin vulnerâre, to wound, from vulnus, vulner-, wound.