Comments on: Truck (flagpole) http://www.word-detective.com/2010/06/truck-flagpole/ Semper Ubi Sub Ubi Wed, 20 Mar 2013 19:32:55 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Andrew http://www.word-detective.com/2010/06/truck-flagpole/comment-page-1/#comment-41757 Andrew Wed, 04 Jul 2012 18:09:52 +0000 http://www.word-detective.com/?p=3264#comment-41757 I've heard it said that the "truk" was a spillover from navy ships' yardarm ends, to they contain three articles: a razor, a match and a bullet, to it represents the severed human head of the vanquished army's leader, as was once stuck on the end of a spear. Turns out that none of the "romantic" sybolisms are accurate. It is simply there to keep rain out of a hollow flagpole. They tried an eagle, but the flag kept wrapping around it. It is put on a solid flagpole just to be consistent. Sometimes the truth can slap you upside your face! I’ve heard it said that the “truk” was a spillover from navy ships’ yardarm ends, to they contain three articles: a razor, a match and a bullet, to it represents the severed human head of the vanquished army’s leader, as was once stuck on the end of a spear.

Turns out that none of the “romantic” sybolisms are accurate. It is simply there to keep rain out of a hollow flagpole. They tried an eagle, but the flag kept wrapping around it. It is put on a solid flagpole just to be consistent.

Sometimes the truth can slap you upside your face!

]]> By: jay http://www.word-detective.com/2010/06/truck-flagpole/comment-page-1/#comment-28363 jay Thu, 15 Dec 2011 15:54:31 +0000 http://www.word-detective.com/?p=3264#comment-28363 You misspelled the word. The round, ballish ornament at the top of most flag poles is called a "truk" without the letter "C" and still pronounced "Truck". It represents the "Shot heard around the world", more commonly known as the start of the Revolutionary War / War of Independence. The "shot heard around the world" is the colloquialism used to refer to the first shots fired in Lexington during the beginning stages of the Revolutionary War / War of Independence. You misspelled the word. The round, ballish ornament at the top of most flag poles is called a “truk” without the letter “C” and still pronounced “Truck”.

It represents the “Shot heard around the world”, more commonly known as the start of the Revolutionary War / War of Independence. The “shot heard around the world” is the colloquialism used to refer to the first shots fired in Lexington during the beginning stages of the Revolutionary War / War of Independence.

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