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The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn vocabulary

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jackstaff: tags: [nautical]

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(nautical) A short spar, at the bows of a ship, that serves as a flagpole to fly a flag (a jack)

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As I went by I see it was a lantern hanging on the jackstaff of a double-hull ferryboat.

Mark Twain. The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn.

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