flag-staff

plural flag-staffs · plural flag-staves

1. alternativeAlternative form of flagstaff.

   At the west is a square tower, of graceless proportions, surmounted by a mean wooden turret and two flag-staves.

   1816, John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Thomas Hood, The Beauties of England and Wales

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   When the Flag is at half-staff, in the case of a cylindrical iron flag-staff, the middle of the hoist is about half-way between the top of the staff and the band to which the top of the guy anchors are fastened.

   1928, Arthur Riehl Wilson, Robert Melville Danford, Field Artillery Manual

   Near this cavern there was a hut for absolute magnetic observations, and on a small hill above, on which was a flag-staff, were the meteorological instruments.

   2014, Clements R. Markham, F. H. H. Guillemard, The Lands of Silence, page 495

   Just outside the outer gateway posts are inserted in the ground wherewith to support the tall flag-staffs used at festivals, and sometimes other smaller ones for the cords on which lanterns are hung during illuminations.

   2015, Henry Faulds, Nine Years in Nipon, page 261