Pilot flag

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• Pilot

  ·noun The cowcatcher of a locomotive. II. Pilot ·noun An instrument for detecting the compass error...

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• pilot

  An experienced person charged with the ship's course near the coasts, into roads, rivers, &c., and t...

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• Flag

  ·noun A flat stone used for paving. II. Flag ·vt To lay with flags of flat stones. III. Flag ·vt T...

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• Flag

  (Heb., or rather Egyptian, ahu, Job 8:11), rendered "meadow" in Gen. 41:2, 18; probably the Cyperus ...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• flag

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

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• 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 ...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Branch pilot

  ·- A pilot who has a branch or commission, as from Trinity House, England, for special navigation. ...

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• Cow-pilot

  ·noun A handsomely banded, coral-reef fish, of Florida and the West Indies (Pomacentrus saxatilis); ...

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• Pilot balloon

  ·add. ·- A small, unmanned balloon sent up to indicate the direction of air currents. ...

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• Pilot lamp

  ·add. ·- ·Alt. of Pilot light. ...

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• Pilot light

  ·add. ·- A small incandescent telltale lamp on a dynamo or battery circuit to show approximately by ...

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• Pilot valve

  ·add. ·- A small hand-operated valve to admit liquid to operate a valve difficult to turn by hand. ...

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• Pilot wheel

  ·add. ·- A wheel, usually with radial handles projecting from the rim, for traversing the saddle of ...

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• Sky pilot

  ·add. ·- A person licensed as a pilot. ...

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• pilot-bird

  n. This name is given toa sea-bird of the Caribbean Islands. In Australia itis applied to Pycnoptil...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• branch-pilot

  One approved by the Trinity House, and holding a branch, for a particular navigation. ...

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• coasting pilot

  A pilot who has become sufficiently acquainted with the nature of any particular coast, to conduct a...

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• pilot cutter

  A very handy sharp-built sea-boat used by pilots. ...

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• pilot-fish

  ♦ Naucrates ductor, a member of the Scomber family, the attendant on the shark. ...

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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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• 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...

  Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose

• australian flag

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

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• cooper's-flag

  n. another name in New Zealandfor Raupo (q.v.). ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• native flag

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

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• 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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• 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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• flag-side of a split fish

  The side without the bone. ...

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