Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A narrow flag, streamer, or pennon, especially one carried at the top of a lance or spear.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
pencil . - noun A small pennon or streamer attached to a staff, spear, or lance.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun obsolete A small, narrow flag or streamer borne at the top of a lance; -- called also
pennoncel .
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
[Middle English, from Old French penoncel, diminutive of penon, pennon; see pennon.]
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
From Anglo-Norman pencel, reduced form of penuncel.
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Examples
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And thats when the point on his pencel broke and then we got up and went out.
Flowers for Algernon Keyes, Daniel 1966
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