Significados de hoist a flag em inglês

Lower your weapons, and let us hoist a flag of truce.

If I want you to follow us, I will hoist a flag on the boat-hook.

For those too genteel to hoist a flag.

The lighthouse, when finished, was put in charge of two keepers, with instructions to hoist a flag when anything was wanted from the shore.

He immediately hoists a flag, and makes signals indicating the direction.

A case of hoisting a flag up the pole to see who will salute.

You had not even hoisted a flag to rally round.

Old Willis hoists a flag before his house, and half-a-dozen merchant skippers do the same.

We hoisted a flag, union down, and then we went below to get some breakfast.

Oh, that will never do, they have hoisted a flag and are waiting a reply.

In spite of all this, the coward at once hoisted a flag of truce, and surrendered.

Like hoisting a flag on a pole.

Captain Hull, hoisting a flag at the end of a boat-hook, gave the signal to come nearer.

He was among the considerable number of volunteers who claimed to have hoisted a flag over the GPO.

Then, there remaining in the fort only the clerks, women, and wounded, he hoisted a flag of truce.

Now Collingood was, in reality, one of the most just, humane, and benevolent admirals that ever hoisted a flag.