Carinated
A term badly misused in today’s parlance. It refers to a triangular bar or wire of silver, bent into a bracelet shank. Originally large triangular wire had to be made by the silversmith—pounded into shape with a hammer, or by driving a long, thin slug into a triangular swage block. Dan Simplicio had such a mold cut into the surface of his anvil. The term is used these days for any triangular stock, implying it was hand built and therefore more valuable.