merchant flag

American  

noun

1. the ensign used by all ships engaged in commerce, fishing, etc.

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merchant flag

I saw the American merchant flag in every port of the Pacific, Indian, and Atlantic oceans, and doing the carrying trade of the world.

From My Life in Many States and in Foreign Lands Dictated in My Seventy-Fourth Year by George Francis Train

The British merchant flag was flying at her mizzen-gaff, with the ensign down.

From The Boy With the U. S. Life-Savers by Francis Rolt-Wheeler

A number of the foreign nations have different flags, known as the royal standard, the war flag, and the merchant flag.

From The Great Round World and What Is Going On In It, Vol. 2, No. 23, June 9, 1898 A Weekly Magazine for Boys and Girls by Julia Truitt Bishop

The merchant flag is the same without the shield and crown.

From Flags: Some Account of their History and Uses. by Andrew Macgeorge

Let your deeds express your gratitude; and if you behave as well under the pennant as you have hitherto done under the merchant flag, I shall be more than satisfied.

From The Log of a Privateersman by W. (William) Rainey