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Meanings of hoist a flag in English

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Usage of hoist a flag in English
1
Lower your weapons, and let us hoist a flag of truce.
Captain Mugford: Our Salt and Fresh Water Tutors
2
If I want you to follow us, I will hoist a flag on the boat-hook.
Dick Sands, the Boy Captain
3
For those too genteel to hoist a flag.
The Guardian
4
The lighthouse, when finished, was put in charge of two keepers, with instructions to hoist a flag when anything was wanted from the shore.
The Lighthouse
5
He immediately hoists a flag, and makes signals indicating the direction.
The Bushman — Life in a New Country
6
A case of hoisting a flag up the pole to see who will salute.
The Irish Times
7
You had not even hoisted a flag to rally round.
Charles Philip Yorke, Fourth Earl of Hardwicke, Vice-Admiral R.N...
8
Old Willis hoists a flag before his house, and half-a-dozen merchant skippers do the same.
Two Years Ago, Volume II.
9
We hoisted a flag, union down, and then we went below to get some breakfast.
The Vizier of the Two-Horned Alexander
10
Oh, that will never do, they have hoisted a flag and are waiting a reply.
Willis the Pilot : A Sequel to the Swiss Family Robinson / Or, A...
11
In spite of all this, the coward at once hoisted a flag of truce, and surrendered.
With Clive in India; Or, The Beginnings of an Empire
12
Like hoisting a flag on a pole.
The secret river
13
Captain Hull, hoisting a flag at the end of a boat-hook, gave the signal to come nearer.
Dick Sand: A Captain at Fifteen
14
He was among the considerable number of volunteers who claimed to have hoisted a flag over the GPO.
The Irish Times
15
Then, there remaining in the fort only the clerks, women, and wounded, he hoisted a flag of truce.
With Clive in India; Or, The Beginnings of an Empire
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Now Collingood was, in reality, one of the most just, humane, and benevolent admirals that ever hoisted a flag.
White Jacket; Or, The World on a Man-of-War
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