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flagpole
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flagpole [′flag‚pōl]
(engineering)
A single staff or pole rising from the ground and on which flags or other signals are displayed; on charts the term is used only when the pole is not attached to a building.


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Rather, it was run up the flagpole on the morning after as a means of sticking it to the vanquished British.
 
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