flag station
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of flag station
An Americanism dating back to 1845–50
Example Sentences
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At the tiny flag station of Wykes, C.N.R.'s No. 11, more than an hour late, slid to an unscheduled stop.
From Time Magazine Archive
The car on which he had concealed himself stood alone, on a side track at a flag station where it had been set off in the early morning.
From The Bail Jumper by Robert J. C. Stead
To this county he was tracked and yesterday captured at Clow, a flag station on the Arkansas & Louisiana railway about twenty miles north of Hope.
From The Red Record Tabulated Statistics and Alleged Causes of Lynching in the United States by Ida B. Wells-Barnett
"Is that a foreign country," says I, "or a nickname for some flag station?"
From On With Torchy by Foster Lincoln
It was about three miles to the flag station, and I believe his mother lived somewhere on the way.
From Aunt Madge's Story by Sophie May
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