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Blue peter

noun

A blue flag with a white square in the center indicates that the vessel is ready to sail.

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"Blue peter" Quotes from Famous Books

... commotion. The great whaling fleet that every year sailed from this place for the Greenland fisheries was busily preparing for sea. The sun was shining over the brown hills of Orphir, and casting a golden sheen over the calm bay. Out beyond the Holms the whaling ships lay at anchor, the Blue Peter flying at each forepeak, and between them and the town many boats were passing ...

— The Pilots of Pomona • Robert Leighton

... But the Blue Peter,[1] gently floating in the scarcely perceptible breeze, betokened the vessel from which it streamed, destined for a far different purpose. It told not of restoring the fond husband to his wife, the father to his children, ...

— A Book For The Young • Sarah French

... Cove immediately, so as to cross at Passage before daylight, and take my chance of shipping with some of the outward—bound that are to sail, if the wind holds, the day after to—morrow. There is to be no pressing when blue Peter flies at the fore—and that was hoisted this afternoon, I know, and the foretopsail ...

— Tom Cringle's Log • Michael Scott

... BLUE PETER. The signal for sailing when hoisted at the fore-topmast head; this well-known flag has a blue ground with a white ...

— The Sailor's Word-Book • William Henry Smyth

... morning, at daylight, the blue Peter was hoisted at the foremast, and the gun fired as a signal for sailing; all was bustle— hoisting in, clearing boats of stock, and clearing the ...

— Percival Keene • Frederick Marryat