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tiller-beams

tiller-beams is the plural of tiller-beam.

Meaning of tiller-beam

Noun

tiller-beam (plural tiller-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 tiller-beams

What is tiller-beams the plural of?
Tiller-beams is the plural of tiller-beam.

Words near tiller-beams in the dictionary

  1. tiller truck
  2. tiller trucks
  3. tiller yoke
  4. tiller yokes
  5. tiller-beam
  6. tiller-beams
  7. tillered
  8. tillering
  9. tillerings
  10. tillerless
  11. tillerman

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