Noun: flag-staff
| Singular | flag-staff |
| Plural | flag-staffs; flag-staves |
Sample Sentences
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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:]
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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:]
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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:]
Nouns inflected like flag-staff
cantoral staff,
leveling staff,
backstaff,
quarterstaff,
pikestaff,
distaff,
vine staff,
cowlstaff,
ragged staff,
packstaff,
vine-staff,
runestaff,
handstaff,
station staff,
Jeddart staff,
bedstaff,
Jedburgh staff,
flag-staff,
treble staff,
flag staff, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology