cooper's-flag

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• Flag

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• flag

  A groat. CANT.--The flag of defiance, or bloody flag is out; signifying the man is drunk, and alludi...

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• flag

  A general name for the distinguishing colours of any nation. Also, a certain banner by which an admi...

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• Flag

  There are two Hebrew words rendered "flag" in our Bible: • A word of Egyptian origin, and denoting ...

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• Coopers' Hall

  On the west side of Basinghall Street at No. 71 (P.O. Directory). North of the Guildhall Library in ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• Cooper's Rents

  At the north-east corner of St. Catherine's Square, Tower Hill, opposite St. Katherine's Stairs (Loc...

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• Cooper's Row

  South out of Crutched Friars, at No. 17, to Trinity Square (P.O. Directory). Partly in Aldgate Ward,...

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• Cooper's Yard

  On Little Tower Hill (P.C. 1732). Not named in the maps. ...

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• coopers-wood

  n. the timber of an Australiantree, Alphitonia excelsa, Reiss, N.O. Rhamneae.The wood becomes dark w...

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• Palmetto flag

  ·add. ·- Any of several flags adopted by South California after its secession. That adopted in Novem...

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• Pilot flag

  ·add. ·- The flag hoisted at the fore by a vessel desiring a pilot, in the United States the union j...

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• Water flag

  ·- A European species of Iris (Iris Pseudacorus) having bright yellow flowers. ...

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• blue flag

  He has hoisted the blue flag; he has commenced publican, or taken a public house, an allusion to the...

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• australian flag

  n. Hot climate and countrywork have brought in a fashion among bushmen of wearing a beltor leather ...

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• native flag

  n. See under flax, native,and flax, New Zealand. ...

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• bloody flag

  A large red flag. ...

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• flag-officer

  A term synonymous with admiral. ...

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• flag-share

  The admiral's share (one-eighth) in all captures made by any vessels within the limits of his comman...

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• flag-ship

  A ship bearing an admiral's flag. ...

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• flag-staff

  In contradistinction to mast-head, is the staff on a battery, or on a ship's stern, where the colour...

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• sick-flag

  The yellow quarantine flag, hoisted to prevent communication; whence the term of the yellow flag, an...

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• yellow-flag

  The signal of quarantine. ...

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• flag of truce

  A white flag, hoisted to denote a wish to parley between the belligerent parties, but so frequently ...

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• foul-weather flag

  Denotes danger for boats leaving the shore; watermen's fares increase with these signals. ...

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• hoisting the flag

  An admiral assuming his command "hoists his flag," and is saluted with a definite number of guns by ...

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• Cooper's Court, East Smithfield

  See Hooper's Court. ...

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• Cooper's Court, Foster Lane

  See Half Moon Alley. ...

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• fly of a flag

  The breadth from the staff to the extreme end that flutters loose in the wind. If an ensign, the par...

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• Chain Alley, Cooper's Row, Aldgate

  See Gould Square. ...

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• flag-side of a split fish

  The side without the bone. ...

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