house-finch

The Century Dictionary: The Encyelopedic Lexicon of the English Language · 1887 · p. 244

(hous’finch), n. See finch. house-flag (hous’flag), ». The distinguishing flag of a shipping or other busine house or firm; the flag of the house to which a ship belongs. [1] turned my eyes aloft where the house-flag, dwarfed by height, was rattling like a peal of musketry at the main royal-masthead. W. C. Ru ell, Jack’s Courtship, xx.