flagstaff

We say: Give it to me straight, doc, but then a flagstaff comes crashing down between our eyes.

From Washington Post ● Jul. 22, 2022

Mr. Kinzler was charged with designing a moonworthy flagstaff.

From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2014

In his design, the sleeve was supported by a collapsible crossbar attached to the flagstaff.

From New York Times ● Mar. 15, 2014

He would win by the length of a street, and a blue and white flag would go fluttering up the flagstaff and everybody would stand to attention while the band played the Finnish national anthem.

From The Guardian ● May 18, 2012

“That’s a real flagstaff, you see,” said Wemmick, “and on Sundays I run up a real flag. Then look here. After I have crossed this bridge, I hoist it up—so—and cut off the communication.”

From "Great Expectations" by Charles Dickens

When displayed at the same location on separate poles, the code says, they “should be displayed on flagpoles or flagstaffs of the same height” and “the flags should be of approximately equal size.”

From Seattle Times ● Mar. 25, 2022

Mitchel Square in Washington Heights is named for him, and the two commemorative flagstaffs in the plaza in front of the main public library on Fifth Avenue memorialize Mitchel.

From New York Times ● Mar. 26, 2011

Boot heels click and swords flash in the sun; hands sweep neatly to helmet brims and pennants slowly change place on flagstaffs.

From Time Magazine Archive

Last week from the flagstaffs of these pampered potentates fluttered the crimson & gold of Bikaner, the blue, white & yellow of Bahawalpur, the scarlet of Patiala.

From Time Magazine Archive

Used for railway ties, fence posts, sills, ship timbers, telegraph poles, flagstaffs.

From Seasoning of Wood by J. B. (Joseph Bernard) Wagner

Over the altar are still seen the French flagstaves, taken by the garrison in a desperate sally.

From The History of England, from the Accession of James II — Volume 3 by Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay