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flag-man
[f. flag n.4 + man.]
†1. An admiral, a flag-officer. Obs.
1666Pepys Diary (1879) III. 428 To Mr. Lilly's the painter's; and there saw the heads..of the Flaggmen in the late great fight. 1713[Darrell] Gentleman Instructed iii. (ed. 5) 409 He was a kind of Flagman, a Vice-Admiral, in all those Expeditions of Good-fellowship.
2. One who has charge of or carries a flag; one who signals with a flag.
1832Lincoln Herald 13 Jan. 1 The crowd all rushed into the yard, with Beck, the flagman. 1875‘Stonehenge’ Brit. Sports ii. i. xiv. §1. 487 The Starter is..allowed an assistant, besides a flagman. 1890Pall Mall G. 14 Jan. 6/1 The flagman..obeyed the order. |