▪ I. flagger1 Anglo-Irish.
(ˈflægə(r))
[Cf. flag n.1; also fligger and OF. flechiere, flequiere, flagiere water plants, flags collectively.]
= flag n.1
| 1842 S. Lover Handy Andy xv, Its banks sedgy, thickly grown with flaggers and bulrushes. 1843 Lever J. Hinton xx, The sedgy banks, whose tall flaggers bow their heads beneath the ripple that eddies from the bow. |
▪ II. ˈflagger2
[f. flag v.3 and n.2 + -er1.]
1. One who flags or lays down flagstones.
| 1868 Whitman Poems, To Working Men 6 Flagging of side-walks by flaggers. |
2. slang. A street-walker.
| 1865 Daily Paper, Police Report (Farmer), She wasn't a low sort at all—she wasn't a flagger as we call it. |
▪ III. flagger3
(ˈflægə(r))
[f. flag n.4 + -er1.]
A man who carries a flag before a traction-engine to warn drivers of vehicles, etc.
| 1892 Scott. Leader 9 Jan. 4 The ‘flagger’, who turned up some time after in hot pursuit of the fugitive [engine]. |