flagpole
Speech parts
1. flagpole - Noun
2. flagpole - Verb
Meaning
a tall staff or pole on which a flag is raised
surveying instrument consisting of a straight rod painted in bands of alternate red and white each one foot wide; used for sightings by surveyors
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Phrases with the word
Examples
I see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down.
A clip (labeled a dramatization) shows "Al Capone" performing the dance on the flagpole and then falling.
Adjacent to the Pyramid is the lighthouse (1863) that houses the Nelson Mandela Bay Tourism office, as well as a 12 x 8 m South African Flag flying from a 65 m high flagpole.
An Argentine immigrant of Irish origin, William Dickson, was appointed as the British representative and provided with a flagpole and flag to be flown whenever ships were in harbour.
A flagpole is all that marks what was City Hall.
People counted the years by the number of floods they’d lived through, their own watery epochs, and they’d even developed their own internal threat warning system: the old flagpole that stood like a roundabout in the middle of Main Street.