burgee

Definitions

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  • noun A broad tapering pennant, often with a swallowtail, flown by merchant ships to identify the vessel and by yachts to identify the yacht club, as well as being the form of the flag of the State of Ohio.
  • noun A kind of small coal used in furnaces.

Examples

  • "Yes, my dear Squaretoes; but we don't call a burgee a flag aboard ships."

    Crown and Anchor Under the Pen'ant

  • You can get race news (on the Kiwi crew member who lost a finger, for example), updated photos of the beach from the "San Diego Bay-Cam" and a glossary for finding out the difference between a gennaker and a burgee.

    Getting Wet On The Net

  • Still others passionately advocate for the defeat of the housing bonds, and they too fly the burgee of honesty and courage.

    Measure R Dodges Another Bullet

  • Now, as she came up into the harbour, she could pass without question for a man-o'-war brig except that she flew the Royal Yacht Squadron burgee instead of a commission pendant.

    Hornblower In The West Indies

  • An impression of paint, varnish, and carpentry was in the air; a gaudy new burgee fluttered aloft; there seemed to be a new rope or two, especially round the diminutive mizzen-mast, which itself looked altogether new.

    The Riddle of the Sands

  • I clung, with a desperate grasp, to the rope, but was thrown out with a jerk in an angle of forty-five degrees with the horizon, and when the brig suddenly righted I attained for a few seconds a horizontal position, and to an observer on deck must have looked not unlike a spread eagle burgee at half-mast.

    Jack in the Forecastle or, Incidents in the Early Life of Hawser Martingale

  • Over every mess-room flew the regimental burgee as a signal that therein was lunch for all comers; while in front of those near the course, flanked on either side by rows of chairs and benches, were pitched marquees for the convenience of those who might desire lighter refreshment.

    Belles and Ringers

Note

The word 'burgee' may come from the French dialectal 'bourgeais', "shipowner".