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flagfall

noun

Etymology

From flag + fall.

  1. inherited from *fallą✻
  2. inherited from fealle — “trap, snare”
  3. inherited from feall
  4. inherited from fal
  5. inherited from *h₃elh₁-✻ — “to collapse, fall; to destroy”
  6. inherited from *fallaną✻ — “to fall”
  7. inherited from *fallan✻ — “to fall”
  8. inherited from feallan — “to fall, fail, decay, die, attack”
  9. inherited from fallen
  10. compounded as flagfall — “flag + fall”

Definitions

  1. The start of a horse race

    • Boyce took him ahead at the flagfall , with the Hughes horse in pursuit

  2. A fixed fare charged at the beginning of a taxi ride

The neighborhood

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA