pilot flag

nounNautical.

the flag symbolizing the letter G in the International Code of Signals, flown by itself to request a pilot from a pilot service: a flag of three yellow and three blue vertical stripes.
the flag symbolizing the letter H in the International Code of Signals, flown by itself to indicate that a pilot is on board: a flag with one white and one red vertical stripe.

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How to use pilot flag in a sentence

Some five hundred yards beyond the barrier, a small Danish steamer flying a pilot-flag, came steaming towards us.
Gun running for Casement in the Easter rebellion, 1916 | Karl Spindler
That was fortunate, for in the next few moments she ran up, not the Irish pilot flag, but the British naval ensign.
Gun running for Casement in the Easter rebellion, 1916 | Karl Spindler

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