flag staff

Definitions

1. 1

   Alternative form of flagstaff.

   • 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.
   • 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;
   • 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.
2. 2

   A flag officer and his staff.

   • 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.
   • 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.
   • Thirteen of the flag staff were dead, including three officers and ten enlisted men.

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