A piece of cloth, often decorated with an emblem, used as a visual signal or symbol.
The vote in the Bundestag (parliament) on Thursday makes defiling foreign flags equal to the crime of defiling the German flag. […] The new law also applies to acts of defilement besides burning, such as publicly ripping a flag up.
The design that could be placed on a flag, typically a rectangular graphic that is used to represent an entity (like a country, organisation or group of people) or an idea.
The flag of France has three vertical stripes.
Any of various plants with sword-shaped leaves, especially irises; specifically, Iris pseudacorus.
[T]he ebbed man, ne'er loved till ne'er worth love, Comes deared by being lacked. This common body, Like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, Goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide, To rot itself with motion.
A slice of turf; a sod.
A slab of stone; a flagstone, a flat piece of stone used for paving.
On market days the farmers would come in before going home - Tysons and Lindsays and Birketts and Longmires and Boows and Dawsons - and their dogs would lie in heaps on the flags while they themselves supped Gerald's ale.
A group of feathers on the lower part of the legs of certain hawks, owls, etc.
From Middle English flag, flagge (“flag”), further etymology uncertain. Perhaps from or related to early Middle English flage (name for a baby's garment) and Old English flagg, flacg (“cataplasm, poul...
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To pave with flagstones.
Fred is planning to flag his patio this weekend.