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Definition of Flagstaffs
1. flagstaff [n] - See also: flagstaff
Lexicographical Neighbors of Flagstaffs
Literary usage of Flagstaffs
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Navigation and Nautical Astronomy, for the Use of British Seamen by James Inman (1849)
"In the figure all station flagstaffs from a to I are determined from A and B,
and all the intermediate soundings, together with the conspicuous objects C, ..."
2. Plane Trigonometry by Sidney Luxton Loney (1895)
"A and В are two points on the line joining the bases of the flagstaffs and ...
The angles of elevation of the tops of the flagstaffs as seen from A are 30° ..."
3. Venice by Grant Allen (1908)
"From the Campanile you may proceed to observe the three great flagstaffs which
stand in ... The *bronze bases of these flagstaffs are splendid specimens of ..."
4. Agricultural Engineering: A Text Book for Students of Secondary Schools of by Jay Brownlee Davidson (1913)
"Range Poles or flagstaffs are used to locate points in establishing a line. ...
flagstaffs should be placed directly over the points they are to mark, ..."
5. The Young and Field Literary Readers by Ella Flagg Young, Walter Taylor Field (1915)
"Those pagoda-like affairs, decked with sea-shells and streamers of every possible
hue, are the judges' stands; and those columns and flagstaffs upon the ice ..."
6. Gurley Manual of Surveying Instruments by Gurley, W. & L. E., Troy, N.Y. (1908)
"WOOD AND IRON flagstaffs. We make three sizes of the common wood ... For prices
of Leveling-Rods and flagstaffs, see pages 270 and 271 of the Price-List. ..."
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