broad pennant

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• Pennant

  ·noun A rope or strap to which a purchase is hooked. II. Pennant ·noun A small flag; a pennon. The ...

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• pennant

  A long narrow banner with St. George's cross in the head, and hoisted at the main. It is the badge o...

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• Broad

  ·superl Free; unrestrained; unconfined. II. Broad ·superl Comprehensive; liberal; enlarged. III. B...

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• Convoy pennant

  ·add. ·- A white pennant with red border, carried : (a) Forward on all vessels on convoy duty. (b) A...

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• Pennant, Thomas

  (1726-1798) Naturalist and traveller, b. in Flintshire, and ed. at Oxf., was one of the most distin...

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• pennant-ship

  Generally means the commodore, and vessels in the employ of government. It is also an authority dele...

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• Broad Church

  ·- A portion of the Church of England, consisting of persons who claim to hold a position, in respec...

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• Broad gauge

  ·- A wider distance between the rails than the "standard" gauge of four feet eight inches and a half...

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• Broad seal

  ·- The great seal of England; the public seal of a country or state. ...

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• Broad-brimmed

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• Broad-horned

  ·adj Having horns spreading widely. ...

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• Broad-leafed

  ·adj Having broad, or relatively broad, leaves. ...

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• Broad-leaved

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• Broad Alley

  In parish of St. Margaret Lothbury, mentioned in will of Sir Henry Kebyll, 1514. Site now covered by...

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• Broad Court

  See St. James' Place. ...

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• Broad Street

  See Old Broad Street, New Broad Street, Little Broad Street. ...

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• Broad Walk

  In the Tower precincts (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799). Also called "Northumberland Place" in P.C. Survey. ...

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• broad-leaf

  n. a settlers' name for Griselinia littoralis, Raoul; Maori name, Paukatea. 1879. W. N. Blair, `Bu...

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• broad arrow

  The royal mark for government stores of every description. To obliterate, deface, or remove this mar...

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• broad axe

  Formerly a warlike instrument; also for beheading; specially applied to the axe of carpenters for ma...

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• broad cloth

  Square sails. ...

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• broad r.

  See broad arrow. ...

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• Broad Street Avenue

  West out of New Broad Street, at No. 17, to Blomfield Street (P.O. Directory). First mention: L.C.C...

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• Broad Street Buildings

  South out of Liverpool Street, at Nos. 2, 5, and 11 (P.O. Directory). Formerly these buildings form...

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• Broad Street Chambers

  At 37 Old Broad Street, opposite Winchester Street, by the Excise Office (Lockie, 1810-Elmes, 1831)....

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• Broad Street Mews

  West out of New Broad Street at its junction with Broad Street Buildings. In Bishopsgate Ward Withou...

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• Broad Street Place

  West out of Blomfield Street (P.O. Directory), forming part of East Street. First mention: Lockie, ...

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• Broad Street Station

  On the north side of Liverpool Street, North London Railway Terminus (P.O. Directory). On the wester...

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• Broad Street Ward

  One of the twenty-six wards of the City, bounded north and east by Bishopsgate Ward, north and west ...

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• Little Broad Street

  South from Throgmorton Street to Threadneedle Street. In Broad Street Ward (Strype, 1720-Lond. Guide...

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• New Broad Street

  North out of Old Broad Street to Liverpool Street (P.O. Directory). In Bishopsgate Ward Without. Als...

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• Old Broad Street

  South from London Wall and Wormwood Street to No.53 Threadneedle Street (P.O. Directory). In Broad S...

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• broad of water

  An extensive lake with a channel communicating with the sea, or a wide opening of a river after pass...

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• Broad Street Ward School

  See Coleman Street Ward School. ...

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• French Court, Broad Street

  See Hercules' Passage. ...

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• New Broad Street Court

  On the east side of Broad Street Buildings. In Bishopsgate Ward Without (O.S.1880). The site is now...

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• Adam Court, Old Broad Street

  See Adam's Court. ...

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• New Court, Old Broad Street

  South-east out of Old Broad Street, in Broad Street Ward, at No.7 (Rocque, 1746-Elmes, 1831). Rebui...

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• Broad Way, Flying Horse Yard, Bishopsgate

  See Foster Street. ...

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• White Horse Court, Old Broad Street

  See Union Court; White Horse Inn, Yard. ...

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• White Horse Yard, Old Broad Street

  See Flying Horse Yard. ...

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• Ward Schools, Broad Street Ward and Coleman Street Ward

  See Coleman Street Ward School. ...

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