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UK
/flˈæɡpəʊl/
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[ US /ˈfɫæɡˌpoʊɫ/ ]
[ US /ˈfɫæɡˌpoʊɫ/ ]
NOUN
- surveying instrument consisting of a straight rod painted in bands of alternate red and white each one foot wide; used for sightings by surveyors
- a tall staff or pole on which a flag is raised
How To Use flagpole In A Sentence
- As it was said, a flagpole had a horizontal slat on the top so that it could be possible to unfurl the flag wide.
- He nearly gets one of those when his staff dismantle the stall and accidentally clout him over the head with the flagpole.
- The monument is a massive flagpole entwined with the trunk and branches of a symbolic banyan tree forged in steel.
- There is also a tall flagpole with a flag being waved, depending on the weather, by the wind.
- The major looked at the crawling figures, then up to the birchwood flagpole which stood on the heights behind them. KARA KUSH
- VENTURA - The American Veterans Flagpoles & Flag Co. and the new state veterans home in Ventura will hold a flag retirement ceremony April 24. Ventura County Star Stories
- Beside him was another of the creatures, this one holding a large flagpole with a black flag hoisted to it.
- He stood perfectly erect with his ass muscles drawn in as if he'd been raised on a flagpole, or as the misdiagnosed second-born twin of a drum majorette. The Great San Francisco Poetry Wars, 3
- Twice more he struck as if he was securing a flagpole into the soil of a previously uncharted land.
- The idea is to create some other vertical structures in this environment besides the antennas, flagpoles and windsocks situated all about the station.
