Definition of Windshaft. Meaning of Windshaft. Synonyms of Windshaft

- The Windshaft is a part in a windmill that carries the sails and also the brake wheel (Smock and Tower mills, and in some Post mills) or the head wheel...
- in a Smock or Tower mill, and in some post mills. It is carried on the Windshaft and drives the Wallower on the Upright Shaft Buck The Buck is an East-Anglian...
- loaded lever which in turn pulls a set of wooden blocks tightly around the windshaft (the shaft the sails are mounted on). This brake design which is similar...
- was by an eight-bladed fantail. South Ockendon Windmill had a cast-iron windshaft carrying two double Patent sails and two single Patent sails with a span...
- windmills all had wooden windshafts, apart from one of the Salt River windmills, which had an iron cross. A replacement windshaft made of iroko was ****ed...
- winded by hand. Baker Street Mill has a cast-iron windshaft and four double patent sails. The windshaft was originally a wooden one. The last working sails...
- to a mechanical device. The sails are carried on the horizontal windshaft. Windshafts can be wholly made of wood, wood with a cast iron pole end (where...
- was modernised. The common sails were replaced by patents; the wooden windshaft replaced by a cast-iron one; the layout of the millstones changed from...
- (229 mm) by 14 inches (356 mm) in section. Ramsey Mill has a cast iron windshaft and four double Patent sails. The wooden Head Wheel is of clasp arm construction...
- lightning and on 5 January 1900 the windshaft snapped at the neck and the sails crashed to the ground. A windshaft from a post mill near Maldon was ****ed...