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A letter lying on its side.
Also known as: Lazy letter brand, Sideways letter brand
The livestock brand convention turning a letter onto its side, changing how the brand is read and named.
Marks a letter as rotated onto its side, read as 'lazy' followed by the letter.
Contexts: History
Multiplies a small alphabet into a large set of distinguishable marks: rotation, reversal and added strokes let a registry issue thousands of unique brands from twenty-six letters.
Contexts: History
A letter rotated ninety degrees so that it lies on its side, the direction of the rotation distinguishing one lazy brand from another.
The lazy modifier is one of the orientation conventions the brand-reading grammar defines.