Banneret

1. n. A small banner.
2. n. Originally, a knight who led his vassals into the field under his own banner; — commonly used as a title of rank.
3. n. A title of rank, conferred for heroic deeds, and hence, an order of knighthood; also, the person bearing such title or rank.
4. n. A civil officer in some Swiss cantons.

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.