“burgee”的英文意思_释义_用法

单词

burgee

释义

burgee|bɜːˈdʒiː|
Also burgie.
[Etymology unknown: senses 1 and 2 may be unconnected.]
1. A small tapered flag or pennant, three-cornered (or swallow-tailed), used by cutters, yachts, etc., generally as a distinguishing flag.
1848Blackw. Mag. LXIII. 87 She allowed her burgee to droop listlessly, flapping it against her mast.1862Lond. Rev. 16 Aug. 139 The Commodore ‘makes’ eight o'clock, and up go all the ensigns and burgees.1884G. C. Davies Norfolk Broads xxxix. 294 A pretty burgee was selected as a distinguishing flag.
2. A kind of small coal suitable for burning in the furnaces of engines.
1867Simmonds Commercial Dict., Burgie [also in sense 1].

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