tail-pole

名词 n.

英文释义

名词 n.
  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.

词形变化

tail-poles plural tail pole alternative tailpole alternative

词源

From tail + pole.
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