Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

tail-pole

Word Rarity Rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.98 in modern English

Syllables: tail-pole
IPA

10

Scrabble Score

8

Letters

2

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

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."

Etymology

From tail + pole.

Inflected Forms

tail-poles (plural) tail pole (alternative) tailpole (alternative)

Synonyms

tail-beam turning-beam tiller-beam

Questions

What does tail-pole mean?: A wooden pole, usually fifteen to twenty-five long and nine inches in diameter, used to rotate a windmill into the wind.
Where does tail-pole come from?: From tail + pole.

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