dip the flag การใช้

• _Dip the flag to any person or thing.
• The controversy began at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London where flag bearers were expected to dip the flag to Edward VII on two occasions.
• At 3.00 p . m . the Cornet and his mounted supporters leave the Moor for the town stopping at the Coble Pool in the River Teviot to dip the flag marking another boundary.
• To dip the flag on a merchant vessel passing a naval vessel involves lowering the stern flag ( the country flag ) to the half-mast position and back to the truck as the vessels pass abeam of each other.