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pennant

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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1610s, "rope for hoisting," probably a blend of pendant in the nautical sense of "suspended rope" and pennon . Use for "flag on a warship" first recorded 1690s; "flag symbolizing a sports championship" (especially baseball) is from 1880; as a synonym for ...

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
The commissioning pennant (or masthead pennant ) is a pennant (also spelled "pendant") flown from the masthead of a warship . The history of flying a commissioning pennant dates back to the days of chivalry with their trail pendants being flown from the ...

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in 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, ...

Usage examples of pennant.

Hokan taste, it was almost an anticlimax after the glorious victory of the fictional Casey when the factual one playfully tapped a home run over the left field fence and won the Sector pennant.

Pennant in mentioning a woman in Rosshire who lived one and three-quarters years without meat or drink.

Jags can do now is tie us and we have a playoff to move into the pennant series.

Behind us Ivor Popple waved a pennant, blew a whistle and the Japanese visitors obediently formed up again.

The slave backed, holding knife in teeth and lashing the barbed shaft to his arm with the pennant.

The mottoes of the various Crests were carved in elegant gilded Icarii script into the walls above pennants and standards.

Just behind all these Cammerling saw ranks of archers advancing with fire-headed missiles on their bows, and the whole mass was being urged on by horn-blowers, cymbalists and bull-roarers and standard-bearers staggering under huge pennants realistically resembling entire flayed human hides.

The Holy War swept beyond it, a great canvas city, matting the distances with the confusion of flaps, guy ropes, pennants, and awnings.

Pippi Goes on Board On a beautiful morning the Hoptoad sailed into the harbor decorated with flags and pennants from end to end.

The last thing I needed was a bunch of practical jokers trying to give me a hotfoot while I was trying to figure out how the team was being sabotaged on their pennant run.

Duke Bretherford looked at the flag in his hands, then up at the pennant of King Aydrian waving in the wind overhead.

From each masthead flew the banners of Islam and the pennants of Omani and the Great Mogul.

The story of Thomas Coutts was told and retold, with variations from its peaceful sailing up the Pearl to a raging fight in which it was attacked by a dozen Chinese boats, its crew captured and lashed to the masts like pennants as a warning to the foolhardy British.

Castlebury said, squinting high up to the ribbonlike pennant above the fore royal sail.

Paks came into the forecourt to find familiar colors there: three horses with saddlecloths of the familiar maroon and white, with a tiny foxhead on the corners, and a pennant held by someone she had never seen before.