Tail-pole

Quick meaning: Tail-pole is a noun meaning A wooden pole, usually fifteen to twenty-five long and nine inches in diameter, used to rotate a windmill into the wind.

Meaning

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

Example Sentences

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.

For a long time the turning was done manually, simply by pushing on a long tail-pole extending downwards, almost to the ground, from the rotatable superstructure.

Word Forms

• tail-poles
• tailpole

Synonyms for tail-pole

Depending on context, synonyms include tail-beam, turning-beam, tiller-beam.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include tailpole, tail-beam, tent pole, tentpole, beanpole, pole.

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