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[ haf-mast, hahf-mahst ] / ˈhæfˈmæst, ˈhɑfˈmɑst /
nouna position approximately halfway between the top of a mast, staff, etc., and its base. verb (used with object)to place (a flag) at half-mast, as a mark of respect for the dead or as a signal of distress. Origin of half-mastFirst recorded in 1620–30 Words nearby half-masthalf-line, half-liter, half-long, half-mad, half-marathon, half-mast, half measure, half-mile, half-miler, half-minute, halfmoon Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for half-mastOutside, somebody had taken care to lower the flags to half-mast. The Resilient City: New York After 9/11|John Avlon|September 11, 2014|DAILY BEAST If a male performer is only flying at half-mast, he may have to spend more time trying to get ready than actually performing. Blood, Sweat and Sex: My Hard Life in Porn|Aurora Snow|March 18, 2013|DAILY BEAST Flags at the border crossing and private homes fly at half-mast in honor of Ivie. Border Patrol Agent’s Death Dubbed Friendly Fire|Teresa Puente|October 6, 2012|DAILY BEAST In a show of solidarity, liberal Republican Mayor John Lindsay ordered that flags be flown at half-mast. George Bush Thanks a Terrorist|Max Blumenthal|December 18, 2008|DAILY BEAST
On the day before a member of the tiny European colony there had died of yellow fever, and all the flags were at half-mast. A Camera Actress in the Wilds of Togoland|Meg Gehrts Then he left it half-mast high, so as to show, in the way usual with seafaring people, that he required help and succour. Godfrey Morgan|Jules Verne The different flagstaffs, and the shipping at the wharves and in the harbor displayed their colors at half-mast. A Sketch of the Causes, Operations and Results of the San Francisco Vigilance Committee of 1856|Stephen Palfrey Webb For, from every main in the harbor, as far as eye could see, the flags of Windover floated at half-mast. A Singular Life|Elizabeth Stuart Phelps Then they reversed it and hoisted it half-mast high, and began to cheer for the Republic.
British Dictionary definitions for half-mast
nounthe lower than normal position to which a flag is lowered on a mast as a sign of mourning or distress verb(tr) to put (a flag) in this position Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 |