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.

It was the lunch break and I was eating my peanut-butter sarmies out of clear grease-proof paper, when, to my great surprise, big drops of water began to fall on me from above, hitting my head and my raised knees, and speckling my sarmies until they were soggy.

An indication of its existence could be the fact that shortly after a strong infection of the leaves the entire plant subcombs in a rather rapid way by general wilting.

To use such a brake on the front wagon, the driver stood up on the seat, letting the team follow the leaders, and threw his whole weight on the upper end of the bar, while the swamper braked the rear wagon.