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Pennant   /pˈɛnənt/   Listen
noun
Pennant  n.  (Naut.)
(a)
A small flag; a pennon. The narrow pennant, or long pennant (called also whip or coach whip) is a long, narrow piece of bunting, carried at the masthead of a government vessel in commission. The board pennant is an oblong, nearly square flag, carried at the masthead of a commodore's vessel. "With flags and pennants trimmed."
(b)
A rope or strap to which a purchase is hooked.






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"Pennant" Quotes from Famous Books



... King's following was billetted on farm-houses in the parishes nearest to the town. Yet, as a warning that all was not their own, four frigates and two line-of-battle ships, with a commission from the rebel government of London, and flying the broad pennant of Admiral Batten, cruised between Jersey and Guernsey, never far from sight, although giving for the most part a wide berth to both the island castles, whose gunners watched them night ...
— St George's Cross • H. G. Keene

... slope, from the top of the knoll where the gym. stood, flowed the wide, quiet Clinton River, with a pennant snapping in the morning breeze on the staff a-top the ...
— A Little Miss Nobody - Or, With the Girls of Pinewood Hall • Amy Bell Marlowe

... know, I guess never, I answered now, quick looking at a Giants pennant, a Korvette ad, a map of Central Park, my Willy Mays baseball and a Radio City tour ticket. That was eight items I'd looked at this trip without feeling any inward improvement. They weren't ...
— No Great Magic • Fritz Reuter Leiber

... of Main Street, Salt Lake City. (A wagon and team stand outside the "City Bathing House" and a pennant flies over the ...
— The Complete Works of Artemus Ward, Part 6 • Charles Farrar Browne

... Thomas Pennant, who travelled in Perthshire in the year 1769, tells us that "on the first of May, the herdsmen of every village hold their Bel-tien, a rural sacrifice. They cut a square trench on the ground, leaving the turf in the middle; on that ...
— Balder The Beautiful, Vol. I. • Sir James George Frazer


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