pennantn.¹

Brit.

/ˈpɛnənt/, U.S.

/ˈpɛnənt/

Forms: late Middle English penaunt, 1500s penannt, 1500s penant, 1600s– pennant.

Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: pendant n.

Etymology: Originally a variant of pendant n., now usually distinguished in form in the senses below, probably partly by association with pennon n. or its etymon Middle French, French pennon . Compare also pencel n.In early use sense 1a is very difficult to distinguish from pendant n. 7a; examples have been placed at this entry which lack medial -d- (note also that in quot. c1470 at sense 1a Middle French panoncel pennoncel n. occurs in the corresponding passage of the translated source).

a. A long tapering or swallow-tailed flag; = pennon n. 1. Also figurative.

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society > armed hostility > military organization > insignia > [noun] > flag, banner, or standard > pennon

pennonc1380

pennantc1470

society > communication > indication > insignia > standard > [noun] > flag > long narrow flag > pennon

gonfanonc1330

pennonc1380

pendant1466

pennantc1470

society > communication > indication > insignia > standard > [noun] > flag

fanea1000

pennon1404

thane1496

flag1530

rag1698

whiffler1760

flourisher1834

pennant1863

the world > space > shape > fact or condition of tapering > [noun] > tapered object > like a pennon

pennona1630

pennant1878

c1470 tr. R. D'Argenteuil's French Bible (Cleveland) (1977) 79 (MED) That dragon was sett so high that men might wele se it iiij myle, and about his wyngis there were penauntis [Fr. panonciaus] of siluer and of silk of diuerse colours.

1533 Let. in H. Prescott Span. Tudor (1940) 30 Banars and penanntes of armis.

1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. ii. v. 127 An order of knights called knights Bannerets, who are made in the field with the ceremonie of cutting awaie the point of his penant of armes, and making it as it were a banner.

1770 A. Brice Mobiad ii. 54 An azure Ensign on a Mopstick waves..: This Pennant scouls Defiance. But below Its brother Pennant flaps inviting Show.

1800 M. Symes Acct. Embassy to Ava v. 188 The whole [building] is crowned by a Tee, or umbrella, of open iron-work, from which rises a rod with a gilded pennant.

1863 S. Baring-Gould Iceland 105 He put up the little pennant which adorned the tent top.

1878 H. M. Stanley Through Dark Continent II. xiii. 374 Quivering flaming pennants of flame.

1933 H. Allen Anthony Adverse I. ii. xiv. 186 One was that of England and the other his house flag, a red pennant with a black thistle.

1990 J. Morrow Only Begotten Daughter (1991) ii. x. 173 Pennants flew from the parapets, snapping in the hot hadean breeze.

b. Nautical. A tapering or swallow-tailed flag used for signalling or some other purpose. See pendant n. 7a, pennon n. 4.

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society > communication > indication > insignia > standard > [noun] > flag > long narrow flag

streamer1292

streamc1440

pendant1466

guidon1548

wimple1656

pennant1698

pinnet1727

scroll1808

fan-

1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 1 His Majesty, Charles II, was pleased to grant Letters of Mart: Which impowered them to wear the King's Jack, Ancient, and Pennant, and to act as Men of War.

1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 30 A small..Vessel, under Spanish Colours, Pennant flying.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Pennant (pennon, Fr.), a small flag, ensign or colours.

1816 ‘Quiz’ Grand Master i. 24 A pennant at the peak appears, To shew the fleet they're at their pray'rs.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Pennant, a long narrow banner with St. George's cross in the head, and hoisted at the main. It is the badge of a ship-of-war. Signal pennants are 9 feet long, tapering from 2 feet at the mast to 1 foot... Broad pennant denotes a commodore, and is a swallow-tailed flag, the tails tapering.

1903 R. Kipling Five Nations 32 The Lord of Sixty Pennants And the Steward of the Sea.

1973 R. Travers Murder in Blue Mountains viii. 67 Swanhilda therefore ran up her signal flag, a pennant which gave her number and port of registration.

2001 Navy News Sept. 20/3 Commodore..Sommerville..will fly his pennant in HMS Chatham.

c. North American. Sport. A flag symbolizing a league championship; (by metonymy) the championship itself. Frequently attributive.

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society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [noun] > types of

all comersc1450

after-gamea1500

fore-game1594

revenge1616

plate1639

set-to1743

return match1753

bye1754

scrub-race1791

anybody's game (also race, match)1826

return1834

barney1843

bonspiel1858

handicap1861

pennant1865

home-and-home1868

benefit match1871

run-off1873

international1877

American tournament1878

Grand Prix1879

single1884

friendly1885

all-comers1889

pair1890

championship1893

round robin1894

replay1895

Olympiad1896

junior varsity1902

lightning tournament1903

rematch1903

road trip1903

pickup1905

freestyle1906

marathon1908

test1908

Derby1909

scrimmage1910

eliminator1911

twosome1911

triala1914

quadrangular1916

slug-fest1916

varsity match1921

needle contest1922

curtain jerker1923

needle match1923

open1926

needle fight1927

knock-out1928

shirt1930

masters1933

pro-amateur1934

tune-up1934

World Cup1934

pro-am1937

state1941

sizzler1942

runathon1943

mismatch1954

run-out1955

match-up1959

squeaker1961

triple-header1961

Super Bowl1967

invitational1968

needle game1970

major1976

slobberknocker1986

1865 N.Y. Times 7 July 5/4 The Mutuals have sent their $10 fee..and are now in the arena for the legal whip pennant.

1880 N. Brooks Fairport Nine 188 Bill Hetherington..was entrusted with the championship pennant.

1886 Outing Aug. 572/2 Questions by the dozen come in..in regard to the probable issue of the pennant races in the professional arena.

1915 Literary Digest 21 Aug. 360/3 The Cincinnati Reds..have never yet won a pennant.

1971 L. Koppett N.Y. Times Guide Spectator Sports i. 35 The pennant winner in each league turned out to be the team with the best regular-season record.

1994 D. Halberstam October 1964 xxiii. 282 Some of the Oriole—and Yankee—players thought that if he had not been injured, Baltimore would have won the pennant.

†2. Nautical. A rigging pendant. Also: a piece of equipment used for hoisting (see pendant n. 4). Obsolete.

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > tackle or purchase > [noun] > pendant

pendant1420

pennant1611

1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Palenc, the Pennant; a rope which helpes to hoise vp the boat, and all heauie marchandise, aboord a ship.

1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Pennant,..a tackle for hoisting things on board.

1841 R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. Pendant, or Pennant, a rope to which a purchase is hooked. A long strap..with a hook or block at the other end, for a brace to reeve through, or to hook a tackle to.

3. U.S. In Music: the hook of a quaver, semiquaver, etc.: = hook n.¹ 10c. rare.

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society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > notation > [noun] > character in notation > note > part of note

tailc1325

head1724

hook1782

stem1806

pennant1890

1890 Cent. Dict. Pennant,..3. In musical notation, the hook or stroke..that distinguishes an eighth-, sixteenth-, or thirty-second-note from a quarter-note.

1923 T. Baker Dict. Musical Terms 146/1 Pennant, Same as Hook.

Compounds

C1. General attributive.

pennant bearer n.

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1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. xx. 71 Then must the pennant-bearer slacken sail, That lagging barks may make their lazy way.

1974 R. Adams Shardik xxiii. 174 Behind the line Gel-Ethlin, followed by his pennant-bearer, trumpeter and servant, ran to his left.

2003 Star-Gaz. (Elmira, N.Y.) (Nexis) 24 May 1 c Nightingale represented associates of applied science degree recipients as one of four pennant bearers during Friday's commencement.

C2.

pennant ship n. a ship flying a commodore's pennant, a flagship (also figurative).

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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > commanding or commodore's vessel

commodore1694

commanding ship1758

pennant ship1867

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Pennant-ship, generally means the commodore, and vessels in the employ of government.

1993 Record (Bergen County, New Jersey) (Nexis) 18 Sept. c2 The Yankees' pennant ship hasn't sunk, but it's taking on a lot of water.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

pennantn.²

Brit.

/ˈpɛnənt/, U.S.

/ˈpɛnənt/

Forms: 1600s– pennant, 1700s penant.

Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a proper name. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: proper name Pennant , pendant n.

Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps < a place name, or perhaps an alteration of pendant n. Pennant is a common place name in Wales and also occurs in south-western England. Compare pendle n.²An alternative etymology suggesting derivation directly < Welsh pennant upland, head of a valley (the etymon of the place name; Old Welsh pennant < pen head (see pen n.¹) + nant valley, stream: see nant n.) is unlikely on semantic grounds. The English sense of pennant is not attested in Welsh.

More fully pennant grit. Any of a series of grit and sandstone strata lying between the upper and lower coal measures in South Wales and the Bristol area; stone from these strata used for paving, millstones, etc. Also pennant flag, pennant rock, pennant stone, etc.

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the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > features of stratum or vein > [noun] > material between > between coal

pennant1669

table-bat1712

bind1799

seral1858

bony1874

society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > stone as material for paving > a paving stone > others

pennant flag1756

fairy pavements1787

Purbeck1833

coffin-stone1845

Penistone flag1878

1669–70 in J. S. Moore Goods & Chattels Forefathers (1976) 100 In the stable..some pennant with other Lumber.

1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters iii. 224 This bath was paved with pennant flag..a stone that divides into slates of about two inches thick.

1792 Gentleman's Mag. 62 i. 222 The stone of these two crosses is of a very hard and durable kind, usually called pennant, of a close gritty nature, and dug every where in the mountainous parts of Glamorgan.

1824 Trans. Geol. Soc. 1 256 The Pennant grit consists of thick stratified masses of very fissile sandstone... It is known by the name of Pennant stone.

1886 A. J. Jukes-Browne Student's Handbk. Hist. Geol. 186 The Pennant Grits. This series..forms the fine range of escarpments, which enclose the central table land of the county [sc. Glamorgan].

1912 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 202 270 Mushet identified the Third Division of the productive series in the Forest [of Dean] with the Pennant Rock of Bristol.

1960 L. D. Stamp Britain's Struct. & Scenery (ed. 5) 219 The Coal Measures, which are clearly grouped into two coal-bearing series of shales and sandstones, separated by a thick group of massive sandstones, known as the Pennant Grit.

1982 Britannia 13 381 At this stage the precinct was partly refloored with pennant flags.

2003 G. Biddle Britain's Hist. Railway Buildings 587/2 The masonry comprises courses of small blocks of Pennant sandstone, with ashlar voussoirs.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	pennant
释义	pennantn.¹ Brit. /ˈpɛnənt/, U.S. /ˈpɛnənt/ Forms: late Middle English penaunt, 1500s penannt, 1500s penant, 1600s– pennant. Origin: A variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymon: pendant n. Etymology: Originally a variant of pendant n., now usually distinguished in form in the senses below, probably partly by association with pennon n. or its etymon Middle French, French pennon . Compare also pencel n.In early use sense 1a is very difficult to distinguish from pendant n. 7a; examples have been placed at this entry which lack medial -d- (note also that in quot. c1470 at sense 1a Middle French panoncel pennoncel n. occurs in the corresponding passage of the translated source). 1. a. A long tapering or swallow-tailed flag; = pennon n. 1. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military organization > insignia > [noun] > flag, banner, or standard > pennon pennonc1380 pennantc1470 society > communication > indication > insignia > standard > [noun] > flag > long narrow flag > pennon gonfanonc1330 pennonc1380 pendant1466 pennantc1470 society > communication > indication > insignia > standard > [noun] > flag fanea1000 pennon1404 thane1496 flag1530 rag1698 whiffler1760 flourisher1834 pennant1863 the world > space > shape > fact or condition of tapering > [noun] > tapered object > like a pennon pennona1630 pennant1878 c1470 tr. R. D'Argenteuil's French Bible (Cleveland) (1977) 79 (MED) That dragon was sett so high that men might wele se it iiij myle, and about his wyngis there were penauntis [Fr. panonciaus] of siluer and of silk of diuerse colours. 1533 Let. in H. Prescott Span. Tudor (1940) 30 Banars and penanntes of armis. 1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. ii. v. 127 An order of knights called knights Bannerets, who are made in the field with the ceremonie of cutting awaie the point of his penant of armes, and making it as it were a banner. 1770 A. Brice Mobiad ii. 54 An azure Ensign on a Mopstick waves..: This Pennant scouls Defiance. But below Its brother Pennant flaps inviting Show. 1800 M. Symes Acct. Embassy to Ava v. 188 The whole [building] is crowned by a Tee, or umbrella, of open iron-work, from which rises a rod with a gilded pennant. 1863 S. Baring-Gould Iceland 105 He put up the little pennant which adorned the tent top. 1878 H. M. Stanley Through Dark Continent II. xiii. 374 Quivering flaming pennants of flame. 1933 H. Allen Anthony Adverse I. ii. xiv. 186 One was that of England and the other his house flag, a red pennant with a black thistle. 1990 J. Morrow Only Begotten Daughter (1991) ii. x. 173 Pennants flew from the parapets, snapping in the hot hadean breeze. b. Nautical. A tapering or swallow-tailed flag used for signalling or some other purpose. See pendant n. 7a, pennon n. 4. ΘΚΠ society > communication > indication > insignia > standard > [noun] > flag > long narrow flag streamer1292 streamc1440 pendant1466 guidon1548 wimple1656 pennant1698 pinnet1727 scroll1808 fan- 1698 J. Fryer New Acct. E.-India & Persia 1 His Majesty, Charles II, was pleased to grant Letters of Mart: Which impowered them to wear the King's Jack, Ancient, and Pennant, and to act as Men of War. 1725 D. Defoe New Voy. round World ii. 30 A small..Vessel, under Spanish Colours, Pennant flying. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Pennant (pennon, Fr.), a small flag, ensign or colours. 1816 ‘Quiz’ Grand Master i. 24 A pennant at the peak appears, To shew the fleet they're at their pray'rs. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Pennant, a long narrow banner with St. George's cross in the head, and hoisted at the main. It is the badge of a ship-of-war. Signal pennants are 9 feet long, tapering from 2 feet at the mast to 1 foot... Broad pennant denotes a commodore, and is a swallow-tailed flag, the tails tapering. 1903 R. Kipling Five Nations 32 The Lord of Sixty Pennants And the Steward of the Sea. 1973 R. Travers Murder in Blue Mountains viii. 67 Swanhilda therefore ran up her signal flag, a pennant which gave her number and port of registration. 2001 Navy News Sept. 20/3 Commodore..Sommerville..will fly his pennant in HMS Chatham. c. North American. Sport. A flag symbolizing a league championship; (by metonymy) the championship itself. Frequently attributive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > match or competition > [noun] > types of all comersc1450 after-gamea1500 fore-game1594 revenge1616 plate1639 set-to1743 return match1753 bye1754 scrub-race1791 anybody's game (also race, match)1826 return1834 barney1843 bonspiel1858 handicap1861 pennant1865 home-and-home1868 benefit match1871 run-off1873 international1877 American tournament1878 Grand Prix1879 single1884 friendly1885 all-comers1889 pair1890 championship1893 round robin1894 replay1895 Olympiad1896 junior varsity1902 lightning tournament1903 rematch1903 road trip1903 pickup1905 freestyle1906 marathon1908 test1908 Derby1909 scrimmage1910 eliminator1911 twosome1911 triala1914 quadrangular1916 slug-fest1916 varsity match1921 needle contest1922 curtain jerker1923 needle match1923 open1926 needle fight1927 knock-out1928 shirt1930 masters1933 pro-amateur1934 tune-up1934 World Cup1934 pro-am1937 state1941 sizzler1942 runathon1943 mismatch1954 run-out1955 match-up1959 squeaker1961 triple-header1961 Super Bowl1967 invitational1968 needle game1970 major1976 slobberknocker1986 1865 N.Y. Times 7 July 5/4 The Mutuals have sent their $10 fee..and are now in the arena for the legal whip pennant. 1880 N. Brooks Fairport Nine 188 Bill Hetherington..was entrusted with the championship pennant. 1886 Outing Aug. 572/2 Questions by the dozen come in..in regard to the probable issue of the pennant races in the professional arena. 1915 Literary Digest 21 Aug. 360/3 The Cincinnati Reds..have never yet won a pennant. 1971 L. Koppett N.Y. Times Guide Spectator Sports i. 35 The pennant winner in each league turned out to be the team with the best regular-season record. 1994 D. Halberstam October 1964 xxiii. 282 Some of the Oriole—and Yankee—players thought that if he had not been injured, Baltimore would have won the pennant. †2. Nautical. A rigging pendant. Also: a piece of equipment used for hoisting (see pendant n. 4). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > equipment of vessel > tackle or purchase > [noun] > pendant pendant1420 pennant1611 1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Palenc, the Pennant; a rope which helpes to hoise vp the boat, and all heauie marchandise, aboord a ship. 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Pennant,..a tackle for hoisting things on board. 1841 R. H. Dana Seaman's Man. Pendant, or Pennant, a rope to which a purchase is hooked. A long strap..with a hook or block at the other end, for a brace to reeve through, or to hook a tackle to. 3. U.S. In Music: the hook of a quaver, semiquaver, etc.: = hook n.¹ 10c. rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > written or printed music > notation > [noun] > character in notation > note > part of note tailc1325 head1724 hook1782 stem1806 pennant1890 1890 Cent. Dict. Pennant,..3. In musical notation, the hook or stroke..that distinguishes an eighth-, sixteenth-, or thirty-second-note from a quarter-note. 1923 T. Baker Dict. Musical Terms 146/1 Pennant, Same as Hook. Compounds C1. General attributive. pennant bearer n. ΚΠ 1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. xx. 71 Then must the pennant-bearer slacken sail, That lagging barks may make their lazy way. 1974 R. Adams Shardik xxiii. 174 Behind the line Gel-Ethlin, followed by his pennant-bearer, trumpeter and servant, ran to his left. 2003 Star-Gaz. (Elmira, N.Y.) (Nexis) 24 May 1 c Nightingale represented associates of applied science degree recipients as one of four pennant bearers during Friday's commencement. C2. pennant ship n. a ship flying a commodore's pennant, a flagship (also figurative). ΘΚΠ society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > war vessel > [noun] > commanding or commodore's vessel commodore1694 commanding ship1758 pennant ship1867 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Pennant-ship, generally means the commodore, and vessels in the employ of government. 1993 Record (Bergen County, New Jersey) (Nexis) 18 Sept. c2 The Yankees' pennant ship hasn't sunk, but it's taking on a lot of water. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). pennantn.² Brit. /ˈpɛnənt/, U.S. /ˈpɛnənt/ Forms: 1600s– pennant, 1700s penant. Origin: Of uncertain origin. Perhaps from a proper name. Perhaps a variant or alteration of another lexical item. Etymons: proper name Pennant , pendant n. Etymology: Origin uncertain; perhaps < a place name, or perhaps an alteration of pendant n. Pennant is a common place name in Wales and also occurs in south-western England. Compare pendle n.²An alternative etymology suggesting derivation directly < Welsh pennant upland, head of a valley (the etymon of the place name; Old Welsh pennant < pen head (see pen n.¹) + nant valley, stream: see nant n.) is unlikely on semantic grounds. The English sense of pennant is not attested in Welsh. More fully pennant grit. Any of a series of grit and sandstone strata lying between the upper and lower coal measures in South Wales and the Bristol area; stone from these strata used for paving, millstones, etc. Also pennant flag, pennant rock, pennant stone, etc. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > minerals > mineral deposits > features of stratum or vein > [noun] > material between > between coal pennant1669 table-bat1712 bind1799 seral1858 bony1874 society > occupation and work > materials > raw material > stone or rock > [noun] > stone as material for paving > a paving stone > others pennant flag1756 fairy pavements1787 Purbeck1833 coffin-stone1845 Penistone flag1878 1669–70 in J. S. Moore Goods & Chattels Forefathers (1976) 100 In the stable..some pennant with other Lumber. 1756 C. Lucas Ess. Waters iii. 224 This bath was paved with pennant flag..a stone that divides into slates of about two inches thick. 1792 Gentleman's Mag. 62 i. 222 The stone of these two crosses is of a very hard and durable kind, usually called pennant, of a close gritty nature, and dug every where in the mountainous parts of Glamorgan. 1824 Trans. Geol. Soc. 1 256 The Pennant grit consists of thick stratified masses of very fissile sandstone... It is known by the name of Pennant stone. 1886 A. J. Jukes-Browne Student's Handbk. Hist. Geol. 186 The Pennant Grits. This series..forms the fine range of escarpments, which enclose the central table land of the county [sc. Glamorgan]. 1912 Philos. Trans. (Royal Soc.) B. 202 270 Mushet identified the Third Division of the productive series in the Forest [of Dean] with the Pennant Rock of Bristol. 1960 L. D. Stamp Britain's Struct. & Scenery (ed. 5) 219 The Coal Measures, which are clearly grouped into two coal-bearing series of shales and sandstones, separated by a thick group of massive sandstones, known as the Pennant Grit. 1982 Britannia 13 381 At this stage the precinct was partly refloored with pennant flags. 2003 G. Biddle Britain's Hist. Railway Buildings 587/2 The masonry comprises courses of small blocks of Pennant sandstone, with ashlar voussoirs. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.¹c1470n.²1669
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