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1. n. Any flag or standard; as, the star-spangled banner.
2. n. A kind of flag attached to a spear or pike by a crosspiece, and used by a chief as his standard in battle.
3. n. A large piece of silk or other cloth, with a device or motto, extended on a crosspiece, and borne in a procession, or suspended in some conspicuous place.

The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.