Canting arms
![A common simple example of canting arms: the castle representing the Kingdom of Castile and the lion representing the Kingdom of León.[1]](/uploads/202501/03/Arms_of_Castile_and_Leon.svg3402.png)



Canting arms are heraldic bearings that represent the bearer's name (or, less often, some attribute or function) in a visual pun or rebus. The term cant came into the English language from Anglo-Norman cant, meaning song or singing, from Latin cantāre, and English cognates include canticle, chant, accent, incantation and recant.