Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A flag hoisted at the jack-staff.
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Examples
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And if the admiral make a weft with his jack-flag upon the flagstaff on the mizen topmast-head and fire a gun, then the outwardmost ship on the larboard side is to clap upon a wind with his larboard tacks aboard, and all the squadrons as they have ranked themselves are presently to clap upon a wind and stand after him in a line.
Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX. 1888
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Dictionary_ inclines to the simple explanation that 'jack' was used in this case in its common diminutive sense, and that 'jack-flag' was merely a small flag.
Fighting Instructions, 1530-1816 Publications Of The Navy Records Society Vol. XXIX. 1888
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