vert UK /vɜːt/US /vɝt/noun 7adjective 2verb 1forms 3 noun7 •A vertical surface used by skateboarders or skiers. •(informal) In sport, a type of bicycle stunt competition. •A green colour, now only in heraldry; represented in engraving by diagonal parallel lines 45 degrees counter-clockwise.The field of the arms (shield), which is vert (green), represents the open country of Great Britain. — 1957 •(informal) Vertebrate. •(informal) Vertex. •(no longer used) Green undergrowth or other vegetation growing in a forest, as a potential cover for deer. •(no longer used) The right to fell trees or cut shrubs in a forest.“I understand thee,” said the King, “and the Holy Clerk shall have a grant of vert and venison in my woods of Warncliffe.” — 1819 adjective2 •In blazon, of the colour green. •Abbreviation of vertical. verb1 •(literary, no longer used) To turn.These are Ani-mad-versions indeed, when a Writer’s words are madly verted, inverted, perverted, against his true intent, and their Grammaticall sense. — 1659 formsverted · verting · verts
