"tail-pole" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "From tail + pole.",
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          "ref": "2011, Stanley Freese, Windmills and Millwrighting, Cambridge University Press, page 40:",
          "text": "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.",
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          "ref": "1960, Thomas Kingston Derry, Trevor Illtyd Williams, A Short History of Technology from the Earliest Times to A.D. 1900, Courier Corporation, page 256:",
          "text": "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.",
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        "A wooden pole, usually fifteen to twenty-five long and nine inches in diameter, used to rotate a windmill into the wind."
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          "word": "tail-beam"
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          "word": "turning-beam"
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          "word": "tiller-beam"
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        {
          "word": "tail pole"
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      "word": "tail-beam"
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    {
      "word": "turning-beam"
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    {
      "word": "tail pole"
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      "word": "tailpole"
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  "word": "tail-pole"
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