Word Finder - shaft

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The entire body of a long weapon, such as an arrow.

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The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin.

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Her hand slipped off the javelin's shaft towards the spearpoint and that's why her score was lowered.

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(by extension) Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin.

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Any long thin object, such as the handle of a tool, one of the poles between which an animal is harnessed to a vehicle, the driveshaft of a motorized vehicle with rear-wheel drive, an axle, etc.

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A beam or ray of light.

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Isn't that shaft of light from that opening in the cave beautiful?

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The main axis of a feather.

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I had no idea that they removed the feathers' shafts to make the pillows softer!

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The long narrow body of a lacrosse stick.

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Sarah, if you wear gloves your hands might not slip on your shaft and you can up your game, girl!

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A vertical or inclined passage sunk into the earth as part of a mine

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Your grandfather used to work with a crane hauling ore out of the gold mine's shafts.

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A vertical passage housing a lift or elevator; a liftshaft.

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Darn it, my keys fell through the gap and into the elevator shaft.

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A ventilation or heating conduit; an air duct.

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Our parrot flew into the air duct and got stuck in the shaft.

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Any column or pillar, particularly the body of a column between its capital and pedestal.

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The main cylindrical part of the penis.

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The female labia minora is homologous to the penis shaft skin of males.

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The chamber of a blast furnace.

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To fuck over; to cause harm to, especially through deceit or treachery.

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Your boss really shafted you by stealing your idea like that.

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To equip with a shaft.

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To fuck; to have sexual intercourse with.

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Turns out my roommate was shafting my girlfriend.

The main pit was a vertical shaft.

The fire was discovered by smoke in the upper shaft.

The shaft is of red granite and is beautifully polished.

This is the long splined shaft with a sixteen inch gear at one end.

A shaft of brilliant sunlight fell through the dusty layers of a horse chestnut tree, landing on the velvet vows of her shoes.

Although redundant, the wallower was left on the upright shaft.

Opposite Victoria dock is another ventilation shaft for the tunnels under the river.

A central shaft descended 35 ft.

All tin, except a small quantity produced by the shaft furnace process from exceptionally pure stream tin ore, requires refining by liquation and "boiling" before it is ready for the market.

There were many men ready on the last call for volunteers to descend the shaft.

Thomas, and a monolithic shaft to the memory of General John Ellis Wool (1784-1869), who served with distinction in the War of 1812 and in the Mexican War, and in the Civil War commanded for a time the Department of Virginia.

The campanile is usually a plain brick shaft with shallow pilasters running up the faces.

When the deposit lying below the surface is horizontal, or nearly so, or when the outcrop of an inclined deposit is not accessible, a vertical shaft will be necessary.

A frame of wood or steel, erected at the shaft mouth, and rarely employed except for deep shafts of small cross-section or when the mine cars (tubs) are small, as in many parts of Europe.

From the prop shaft we ascended up the line to meet with Bob's boat.

The main shaft bearings are in two sets and composed of steel balls running in steel cones and cups; the governor is an iron rod about 16 in.

From the girdle hung the single-edged missile axe or francisca, the scramasax or short knife, a poniard and such articles of toilet as scissors, a comb (of wood or bone), &c. The Franks also used a weapon called the framea (an iron lance set firmly in a wooden shaft), and bows and arrows.

The shaft, resting upon arches supported by four cast iron columns about 9 ft.

To the west of the main shaft were three square pits with horses and their harness, and by them two pits with men's skeletons.

If, for a twocompartment shaft, a pair of drums (or a single wide drum) be keyed to the engine shaft, with the ropes wound in opposite directions, the hoisting is " in balance," that is, the cages and cars counterbalance each other, so that the engine has to raise only the useful load of mineral, plus the rope.

Independent drums, on the contrary, are loose upon their shaft, and are thrown on or off by tooth or friction clutches.

Shaft furnace smelting is confined to those parts of the world where charcoal can still be obtained in large quantities at moderate prices.

The furnace consists of a shaft, circular (or more rarely rectangular) in plan, into which alternate layers of fuel and ore are charged, an air blast being generally injected near to the bottom of the furnace through one or more tuyeres.

If the outcrop of the vein or bed is accessible the shaft may be inclined and sunk to follow the deposit.

It was fitted with a high quality graphite shaft for extra distance.

Two of the troykas were the usual household sleighs, the third was the old count's with a trotter from the Orlov stud as shaft horse, the fourth was Nicholas' own with a short shaggy black shaft horse.

With screams squeals, and waving of whips that caused even the shaft horses to gallop--the other sleighs followed.

She finally gripped what was left of the arrow shaft with the pliers.

The shaft of the pubis runs parallel with that of the ischium, with which it is connected by a short ligamentous or bony bridge; this cuts off from the long incisura pubo-ischiadica a proximal portion, the foramen obturatum, for the passage of the obturator nerve.

The term is thus applied to a metal bar, slender in proportion to its length, used as a tie, brace or connecting shaft between different parts, of a machine.

Above the shaft comes the arcaded bell-chamber, frequently built of Istrian stone; and above that again the attic, either round or square or octagonal, carrying either a cone or a pyramid or a cupola, sometimes surmounted by a cross or a gilded angel which serves as a weathercock.

At some distance from the shaft a square water-tight wall was built, and the space between it and the shaft was filled in with sand, which was purified of all saline matter by repeated washings; on the ground-level perforated stones set at the four corners of the basin admitted the rain-water, which was discharged from the roofs by lead pipes; this water filtered through the sand and percolated into the shaft of the well, whence it was drawn in copper buckets.

It is the centre of an important gold-field, the reefs of which improve at the lower depths, the deepest shaft on the field being 2558 ft.

Since the 13th century the snake, under Gothic influence, developed into a boldly designed tendril set with leaves, which usually encircled a figure or group of figures, and the knob dividing shaft and crook into an elegant chapel (6 and 7).

In the Public Square is a soldiers' and sailors' monument consisting of a granite shaft rising from a memorial room to a height of 125 ft., and surmounted with a figure of Liberty; in the same park, also, is a bronze statue of Moses Cleaveland, the founder of the city.

If the workable areas are poor, and appear only at long intervals along the outcrop, the chances of discovering richer areas by a shaft are very small.

This is in general a cheaper and quicker method of development for inclined deposits than by a vertical shaft, and it has the added advantage that much information as to the character of the deposit is obtained as the shaft is sunk.

In the case of very thick beds and mass deposits the main shaft or tunnel will preferably be located in the foot-wall.

Near the top and bottom of hoisting shafts the tracks are usually graded to permit the cars to be run to and from the shaft by gravity.

This is similar to shaft hoisting, except that the grades are often quite flat.

In geared hoists the drums. are on a separate shaft, driven from the crank-shaft by tooth or friction gearing, and make one revolution for, say, 4 or 5 double strokes.

The engine works a massive counter-balanced walking-beam from which is suspended in the shaft a long wooden (or steel) rod, made in sections and spliced together.

Their first cost, however, is high and the cumbersome parts occupy much space in the shaft.

Two compartments of a shaft may be utilized for this purpose, but greater safety is ensured by two separate openings, as required by law in most mining countries.

In a mine with two shafts a ventilating current may result from other conditions creating a difference in the temperature of the air in either shaft - for example, the cooling effect of dropping water or the heating effect of steam pipes.

In 1905 the main shaft had been sunk to a depth of 2600 ft.

A round shaft is fixed in the cork a, which ends in a sharp point.

The magnetic system is inside the walls of the elevator shaft, there are no normal electrical controls.

The femur often possesses a well visible pneumatic foramen on the median side of the proximal end of its shaft.

The famous Venetian pozzi, or wells for storing rain-water from the roofs and streets, consisted of a closed basin with a water-tight stratum of clay at the bottom, upon which a slab of stone was laid; a brick shaft of radiating bricks laid in a permeable jointing material of clay and sand was then built.