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Pen′nant.

1. A rope to which a purchase is hooked. See pendant.

2. A long, narrow streamer borne at the mast-head by vessels of war. A penon.

The head is 6.24 inches to a length of 70 feet; 5.76 to 55 feet; 5.24 inches to 40 feet; 4.8 inches to 30 feet; 4.2 inches to 25 feet.

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