Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A standard-bearer; an ensign; a cornet. This term was in use in England some time before and during the civil wars of Charles I.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun obsolete An ensign; a standard bearer.

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