bunting

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

BUNT'ING, noun A bird of the genus Emberiza. The name is applied to different species, as the English bunting and the rice bunting BUNT'ING, or BUN'TINE, noun A thin woolen stuff, of which the colors or flags and signals of ships are made.
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