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 Ban·ner n.
 1. A kind of flag attached to a spear or pike by a crosspiece, and used by a chief as his standard in battle.
    Hang out our banners on the outward walls.   --Shak.
 2. A large piece of silk or other cloth, with a device or motto, extended on a crosspiece, and borne in a procession, or suspended in some conspicuous place.
 3. Any flag or standard; as, the star-spangled banner.
 Banner fish Zool., a large fish of the genus Histiophorus, of the Swordfish family, having a broad bannerlike dorsal fin; the sailfish.  One species (Histiophorus Americanus) inhabits the North Atlantic.
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