Windshaft

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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 and tail wheel in a Post Mill. Windshafts can be wholly made of wood, or wood with a cast iron poll end (upon where the sails are mounted) or entirely of cast iron.{{Cite journal |last=CLARK |first=H. O |last2=WAILES |first2=REX |date=1949-01-01 |title=Notes on the Berton Sail and the Caviers or Hollow Post Mills of Anjou |url=https://doi.org/10.1179/tns.1949.020 |journal=Transactions of the Newcomen Society |volume=27 |issue=1 |pages=211–216 |doi=10.1179/tns.1949.020 |issn=0372-0187|url-access=subscription }}