Definition of "wheft" [wheft]

• A waft (flag) (noun)

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• "The "wheft" was waved thrice as an urgent signal to the ship to come to our assistance with all speed, but in the meantime our interest lay in the surviving Black Fish keeping alive."
• "They had the red wheft flying, for they were bound on the account, to raid the Main."
• "While Barack Obama is President, we should consider flying the flag in the international symbols for distress - I believe that means upside down, or in a wheft; with a knot tied in the center."