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tail pole

tail pole is the alternative form 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

Forms of tail pole

pluraltail poles

Questions about tail pole

What is tail pole the alternative form of?
Tail pole is the alternative form of tail-pole.

Words near tail pole in the dictionary

  1. tail packing
  2. tail pad
  3. tail pads
  4. tail plug
  5. tail plugs
  6. tail pole
  7. tail poles
  8. tail question
  9. tail questions
  10. tail recursion
  11. tail recursions

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Adapted from Wiktionary: tail pole (page history and authors); tail-pole (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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