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Garrison
Flag
The United States Army, flies over military posts on holidays and
special days. A garrison flag is 20 feet (6 m) wide by 38 feet (12
m) long, twice as wide and long as a post flag.
Grommet
Is a metal ring place along the hoist of a flag to attach the halyard.
Two piece metal grommets were first used in the US about the time
of the Civil War or just after. They were usually steel until the
late 19th century, when brass began to be used. Except for WWII, brass
became common after about 1910. Three piece metal grommets were used
between about 1880 and 1920, although never common and usually made
of steel.
Ground
The background of a flag.
Guidon
1. In the U.S. military, a small swallowtailed flag used by formations
below the battalion level (company, battery, troop, platoon, detachment).
It is a small flag carried at the front or right of a military unit
to guide marchers.
2. Any small swallowtail.
Halyard
A rope used to hoist and lower a flag.
Header
A heavy cloth strip, usually canvas, sewn to the hoist edge of a flag
and often grommeted for hoisting.
Heraldic
Banner
See banner.
Hoist
The part of the flag closest to the staff. The term is also used for
the vertical width of a flag.
Honor
Point
The place on a flag where the color or charge with the greatest or
highest symbolism is placed -- almost always the upper left.
House
Flag
A corporate or personal flag; a flag which does not signify nationality
or citizenship. Often flown by a merchant ship to identify the company
that owns it.
Individual
Flag
in military usage, a flag denoting an officer's rank.
Jack
A flag hoisted at the bow of a ship. In navies this is, as a rule,
a flag identifying nationality, but not necessarily in the same design
as the ensign, while on non-naval vesels, the jack may have other
meanings, or be decorative.
French - pavillon de beaupré
German - gösh
Spanish - torrotito, bandera de tajamar
Russian - gyuis
Dutch - gues
Polish - proporzec
Portuguese - jaco, jaque
Jackstaff
The staff at the bow of a ship.
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