bur|gee

bur|gee
bur|gee «BUR jee», noun.
1. a small, swallow-tailed flag or pennant, used in the international code of flag signals and as a distinguishing flag on merchant ships and yachts.
2. a kind of small coal used for burning in the furnaces of engines.
[origin uncertain]

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