English Explanatory Dictionary

windshaft

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The part of a windmill that carries the sails and brake wheel (in smock and tower mills, and some post mills) or the head wheel and tail wheel in a post mill.

Word forms

windshaft windshafts

Etymology

From wind + shaft.

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