Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See flagpole.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A pole or staff on which a flag is displayed.
Wiktionary
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A staff{4} on which a flag is hoisted.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a tall staff or pole on which a flag is raised
- n. a town in north central Arizona; site of an important observatory
Examples
“I have had two misfires #1 was with my brother in flagstaff, Arz. we were hunting with handguns my first hunt with a 357m S&W.”
“i guess i mispoke. flagstaff is the hub of gore's medical products division, the site of development and manufacturing of implantable medical devices. so, if you have one of THOSE ... cut.it. out! giffy”
“At the head of the flagstaff was a new broom which indicated that the boat had beaten every other vessel then running on the river north of Galena.”
“If Mariani could reach Valentino at Faenza, I would answer for it that within four-and-twenty hours Messer Ramiro del 'Orca would be the banner on that ghastly beam that he facetiously dubbed his flagstaff; and he would be the blackest, dirtiest banner that ever yet had fluttered there.”
“McGonogill, outstripped by Taylor and Anderson, and fearful of the return over the slippery ice-incrusted rocks if he went farther, turned back, but Taylor and Anderson reached the top (about twenty thousand feet above the sea) and firmly planted the flagstaff, which is there yet.”
“Note how the height of the flagstaff, which is 140 feet high and 280 feet distant, is obtained.”
“The foot of the flagstaff, which is to surmount the cupola, will be 160 feet above the sidewalk.”
Lights and Shadows of New York Life or, the Sights and Sensations of the Great City
“He named it well when he called it his "flagstaff," and the miserable banner of carrion that hung from it was a fitting pennon for the ruthless Governor of Cesena.”
“Neither the flag nor the flagstaff may display any advertisement or subject matter additional to the design of the flag.”
“I live in california (and boy has socal gotten bad with illegals), i stopped taking my family to AZ (sedona, phoenix, flagstaff) b/c of the overflow of illegals (hotels can be especially dangerous) for the past 5 years or so.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘flagstaff’.
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phrontistery - f
from phrontistery.info
fabaceous, fabiform, fabulist, faburden, face-cord, facetiae, facia, facinorous, factious, factitious, factitive, factive and 418 more...
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joyce: compounds
a list of joyce's neologistic compounds from portrait of an artist as a young man, dubliners, and ulysses
moocow, oilsheet, fiveshilling, seventyseven, seventysix, studyhall, hearthrug, wellread, playroom, copybook, breadbasket, dwellingplace and 232 more...
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List A
sorority, tantalize, untimely, deem, to wit, pliable, deteriorate, fortnight, Immaculate, susurration, bushed, stray and 56 more...
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Palsters and Pateressas
The staff in its variety.
pleugh-paidle, picker-staff, picking-stick, plow-staff, colstaff, cowlstaff, leveling staff, lituus, jō, Jacob's staff, cantoral staff, jack staff and 41 more...
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