单词 | half-staff |
释义 | half-staff 1. = half-mast.
1708Lond. Gaz. No. 4489/2 The Ships Flags, which were only half-staff high. 1876Bancroft Hist. U.S. III. xix. 519 Pennants hoisted at half-staff. †2. Half the length of a staff. to fight at the half-staff, to fight at close quarters with staves. Obs.
1603Knolles Hist. Turks (1621) 517 The Persian horsemen also..bearing staves of good ash..fight with them as occasion servith at the halfe staffe. |

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