flagpole
pronunciation
How to pronounce flagpole in British English:
UK [ˈflægpəʊl]
How to pronounce flagpole in American English:
US [ˈflægpoʊl]
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- 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
- a tall staff or pole on which a flag is raised
Word Origin
- flagpole (n.)
- also flag-pole, 1782, from flag (n.1) + pole (n.1). Flagpole-sitting as a craze is attested from 1927.
Example
- 1. Only the flagpole was damaged , the embassy said .
- 2. He has built the world 's tallest flagpole .
- 3. A little boy climbs the flagpole near china pavilion
- 4. Donors subsidise basic government functions , including the drugs agency , while watching mr rakhmon construct flamboyant new palaces and the world 's tallest flagpole .
- 5. Last month a man climbed up a flagpole on the israeli embassy and took down the flag , replacing it with the egyptian flag .