pennant

A long, tapering, usually triangular flag, used on ships for signaling or identification.

A flag or an emblem similar in shape to a ship’s pennant.

A flag that symbolizes the championship of a league, especially a professional baseball league.

The championship symbolized by such a flag.

In geology, a local name for a series of sandstones, barren of coal, which are found between the upper and lower coal-measures of South Wales: as, Pennant grit, Pennant stone.

A flag long in the fly as compared with its hoist.

A pointed or swallow tailed flag having its fly about twice its hoist, used especially to denote the rank of the commanding or senior officer on board the ship when it is hoisted: also called broad pennant.

Any flag taken us an emblem of superiority, particularly in athletic contests.

Nautical, a short piece of rope to which a tackle is hooked. See pendant, 5 .