1. flagpole - Noun
2. flagpole - Verb
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
Source: WordNetI see that old flagpole still stands. Have your troops hoist the colors to its peak, and let no enemy ever haul them down. Douglas MacArthur
A clip (labeled a dramatization) shows "Al Capone" performing the dance on the flagpole and then falling. Source: Internet
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. Source: Internet
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. Source: Internet
A flagpole is all that marks what was City Hall. Source: Internet
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. Source: Internet