"tailswing" meaning in English

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  "etymology_text": "tail + swing",
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1994, David Needham, Robert Dransfield, Business Studies, page 133",
          "text": "The authorities provided the boats, and Smalley mounted machines on them that could dredge and clear weed, working in shallow waterways under low, narrow bridges, unhindered by a counterweight tailswing.",
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        {
          "ref": "1999, Howard I. Shapiro, Jay P. Shapiro, Lawrence K. Shapiro, Cranes and derricks, page 268",
          "text": "The tailswing radius may encroach over an active traffic lane or face interference from an obstruction.",
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        {
          "ref": "2011, Nat Segnit, Pub Walks in Underhill Country",
          "text": "Still, spookiness is a contextual matter, and with a zero-tailswing excavator to clear a larger patio, there'd be nothing to stop an enterprising self-builder taking advantage of the fundamentally sound Cotswold stonework to knock up an attractive, if isolated, starter home or holiday cottage.",
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        {
          "ref": "2014, Johnny Tipler, Porsche Carrera: The Air-Cooled Era, 1953-1998",
          "text": "...they wouldn't be able to employ the 911's tailswing characteristics with the neutral handling 914/6, and none of them challenged the Alpine Renaults for outright supremacy.",
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        "When turning a heavy vehicle, the movement of the rear portion of the vehicle in the opposite direction from the direction the front end turns."
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          "movement",
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          "rear",
          "rear"
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      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "tail swing"
        }
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  "word": "tailswing"
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  "etymology_text": "tail + swing",
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  "lang_code": "en",
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          "ref": "1994, David Needham, Robert Dransfield, Business Studies, page 133",
          "text": "The authorities provided the boats, and Smalley mounted machines on them that could dredge and clear weed, working in shallow waterways under low, narrow bridges, unhindered by a counterweight tailswing.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1999, Howard I. Shapiro, Jay P. Shapiro, Lawrence K. Shapiro, Cranes and derricks, page 268",
          "text": "The tailswing radius may encroach over an active traffic lane or face interference from an obstruction.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2011, Nat Segnit, Pub Walks in Underhill Country",
          "text": "Still, spookiness is a contextual matter, and with a zero-tailswing excavator to clear a larger patio, there'd be nothing to stop an enterprising self-builder taking advantage of the fundamentally sound Cotswold stonework to knock up an attractive, if isolated, starter home or holiday cottage.",
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        },
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          "ref": "2014, Johnny Tipler, Porsche Carrera: The Air-Cooled Era, 1953-1998",
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          "type": "quotation"
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      ],
      "glosses": [
        "When turning a heavy vehicle, the movement of the rear portion of the vehicle in the opposite direction from the direction the front end turns."
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  "synonyms": [
    {
      "word": "tail swing"
    }
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  "word": "tailswing"
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