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tail-beams

tail-beams is the plural of tail-beam.

Meaning of tail-beam

Noun

tail-beam (plural tail-beams)

  1. Synonym of tail-pole.
    • Old post-mills were turned or 'luffed' into the wind by a pole variously called the tail-pole, tail-beam, turning-beam, or tiller-beam.2011, Stanley Freese, Windmills and Millwrighting, Cambridge University Press, page 40
    Synonyms:
    tail-pole

Questions about tail-beams

What is tail-beams the plural of?
Tail-beams is the plural of tail-beam.

Words near tail-beams in the dictionary

  1. tail wind
  2. tail winds
  3. tail-bay
  4. tail-bays
  5. tail-beam
  6. tail-beams
  7. tail-buzzer
  8. tail-buzzers
  9. tail-end
  10. Tail-End Charlie
  11. Tail-End Charlies

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