The Collaborative International Dictionary
Pennant \Pen"nant\, n. [OE. penon, penoun, pynoun, OF. penon, F. pennon, fr. L. penna feather. See Pen a feather, and cf. Pennon, Pinion.] (Naut.)
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.''
--Drayton.A rope or strap to which a purchase is hooked.
Usage examples of "long pennant".
The heavy clamp, secured by a strop to the bulwarks, was snapped on, the men on deck shackling on the long pennant wire attached to one of the three-ton anchor buoys and a winch drum high up on the corner of the rig paying out cable as the tow began, out to the pinprick light of the anchor position marker rising and falling in the swell.
But I can declare she is a man-of-war, for a long pennant flutters from her mainmast.
The breeze stirred the white and gold arrayments of his horse as well as the long pennant on his lance.
But I can declare she is a man-of-war, for a long pennant flutters from her main mast.
The track was curving slightly and ahead he could see the locomotive flying its long pennant of smoke above a black wall of carriages.
It was one of these flags or to be more exact a long pennant kicked aside by Stephen as he took his seat on the envoy's right that was Killick's undoing.
A long pennant of pale blue flapped and disintegrated into a thousand filaments.
A long pennant streamed from the brief pole mast beside her funnel.