"flag-staff" meaning in English

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      "form": "flag-staffs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flag-staves",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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        {
          "word": "flagstaff"
        }
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        {
          "ref": "1816, John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Thomas Hood, The Beauties of England and Wales:",
          "text": "At the west is a square tower, of graceless proportions, surmounted by a mean wooden turret and two flag-staves.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1928, Arthur Riehl Wilson, Robert Melville Danford, Field Artillery Manual:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Clements R. Markham, F. H. H. Guillemard, The Lands of Silence, page 495:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Henry Faulds, Nine Years in Nipon, page 261:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Alternative form of flagstaff"
      ],
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  "word": "flag-staff"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "flag-staffs",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "flag-staves",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "flagstaff"
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        {
          "ref": "1816, John Britton, Edward Wedlake Brayley, Thomas Hood, The Beauties of England and Wales:",
          "text": "At the west is a square tower, of graceless proportions, surmounted by a mean wooden turret and two flag-staves.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1928, Arthur Riehl Wilson, Robert Melville Danford, Field Artillery Manual:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2014, Clements R. Markham, F. H. H. Guillemard, The Lands of Silence, page 495:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2015, Henry Faulds, Nine Years in Nipon, page 261:",
          "text": "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.",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
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        "Alternative form of flagstaff"
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