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jack staff
noun
- a flagstaff at the bow of a vessel, on which a jack is flown.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of jack staff1
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Example Sentences
Ten minutes later the steamer is under way again, with no flag on the jack-staff and no black smoke issuing from the chimneys.
Every outward-bound boat had its flag flying at the jack-staff, and sometimes a duplicate on the verge staff astern.
The Captain of the transport, his face purple with passion, was rushing towards the jack-staff.
Don't appear to be any night-hawk on the jack-staff—it's the Amaranth, dead sure!
From the stoke-hole to the funnel, from the jack-staff to the rudder, she explored that boat.
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