tail-beam

English

Noun

tail-beam (plural tail-beams)

1. Synonym of tail-pole
   • 2011, Stanley Freese, Windmills and Millwrighting, Cambridge University Press, page 40:

     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.