turning-beam

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nounturning-beam (plural turning-beams)

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

nounSynonym of tail-pole.

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