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tail-poles

tail-poles is the plural of tail-pole.

Meaning of tail-pole

Noun

tail-pole (plural tail-poles)

  1. A wooden pole, usually fifteen to twenty-five long and nine inches in diameter, used to rotate a windmill into the wind.
    • 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

Questions about tail-poles

What is tail-poles the plural of?
Tail-poles is the plural of tail-pole.

Words near tail-poles in the dictionary

  1. tail-off
  2. tail-offs
  3. tail-pod radish
  4. tail-pod radishes
  5. tail-pole
  6. tail-poles
  7. tail-risk
  8. tail-risks
  9. tail-shedding
  10. tail-sheddings
  11. tail-skid

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