"flag staff" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "flag staffs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flag staves",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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      "name": "en-noun"
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "flagstaff"
        }
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1841, Abel Flint, George Gillet, A system of geometry and trigonometry, page 104",
          "text": "The flag staves should be as much as two and a half or three inches in diameter, or what would be better, two strips of a board of that width, and seven or eight feet in length.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, David Cordingly, Billy Ruffian",
          "text": "She is depicted with huge flags flying from temporary flag staffs above her newly completed hull: the red ensign flies at her stern, a small union flag at her bows;",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, John Frederick Dennett, The Voyages and Travels of Captains Ross, Parry, Franklin, and Mr. Belzoni, page 34",
          "text": "Mr. Fife's party consisted of himself and six men; and after they had wandered for three days they observed the flag staff at a great distance.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of flagstaff"
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2013, Jean Moulin, French Cruisers, 1922–1956",
          "text": "The conning tower was a relatively compact space, with curved walls to provide maximum strength, so it could accommodate only a handful of picked staff to support the Captain and, if flag staff were embarked, the Admiral.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Taylor Anderson, Deadly Shores, page 184",
          "text": "They and a large percentage of the flag staff were standing on Maaka-Kakja 's spacious port bridge-wing while aircraft were trundled across the flight deck on launching trucks that would be hooked to the hydraulic catapults.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Ken Jones, Hubert Kelly Jr., Admiral Arleigh (31-Knot) Burke",
          "text": "Thirteen of the flag staff were dead, including three officers and ten enlisted men.",
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        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "A flag officer and his staff."
      ],
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      ],
      "tags": [
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        "uncountable"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "flag staff"
}

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      "form": "flag staffs",
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        "plural"
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    },
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      "form": "flag staves",
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        "plural"
      ]
    }
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          "ref": "1841, Abel Flint, George Gillet, A system of geometry and trigonometry, page 104",
          "text": "The flag staves should be as much as two and a half or three inches in diameter, or what would be better, two strips of a board of that width, and seven or eight feet in length.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2013, David Cordingly, Billy Ruffian",
          "text": "She is depicted with huge flags flying from temporary flag staffs above her newly completed hull: the red ensign flies at her stern, a small union flag at her bows;",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, John Frederick Dennett, The Voyages and Travels of Captains Ross, Parry, Franklin, and Mr. Belzoni, page 34",
          "text": "Mr. Fife's party consisted of himself and six men; and after they had wandered for three days they observed the flag staff at a great distance.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        {
          "ref": "2013, Jean Moulin, French Cruisers, 1922–1956",
          "text": "The conning tower was a relatively compact space, with curved walls to provide maximum strength, so it could accommodate only a handful of picked staff to support the Captain and, if flag staff were embarked, the Admiral.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Taylor Anderson, Deadly Shores, page 184",
          "text": "They and a large percentage of the flag staff were standing on Maaka-Kakja 's spacious port bridge-wing while aircraft were trundled across the flight deck on launching trucks that would be hooked to the hydraulic catapults.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Ken Jones, Hubert Kelly Jr., Admiral Arleigh (31-Knot) Burke",
          "text": "Thirteen of the flag staff were dead, including three officers and ten enlisted men.",
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        }
      ],
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        "A flag officer and his staff."
      ],
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