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Flagpole

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. Synonyms: range pole, ranging pole.

A tall staff or pole on which a flag is raised. Synonym: flagstaff.

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"Flagpole" Quotes from Famous Books

... exercises at Menil-la-Tour and here they had built a simple platform in the centre of the ground and erected a flagpole at ...

— The War Romance of the Salvation Army • Evangeline Booth and Grace Livingston Hill

... houses stood embedded in green. Now there was only one thing left: she had worked hard to get everything else done so as to begin on the schoolhouse. She wanted plenty of space for the school, which was to be built on the riverside, and must have a big yard, with a flagpole right in the middle of ...

— Jerusalem • Selma Lagerlof

Words linked to "Flagpole" : surveying instrument, ranging pole, flagstaff, staff, surveyor's instrument, range pole