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An interior shaft, usually one connecting two levels.
A rock shaft.
A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, -- usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines; -- called also rocker, rocking shaft, and way shaft.
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n.
A long passage for the admission or outlet of air; an air shaft.
n.
The shaft of a terminus, from which the bust of figure seems to issue or arise.
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The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft.
n.
Alt. of Shaftment
a.
Furnished with a shaft, or with shafts; as, a shafted arch.
n.
An arrow or bolt for a crossbow having feathers or brass placed at an angle with the shaft to make it spin in flying.
v. t.
To distort, as a solid body, by turning one part relatively to another about an axis passing through both; to subject to torsion; as, to twist a shaft.
a.
Having a shaft; -- applied to a spear when the head and the shaft are of different tinctures.
n.
The long handle of a spear or similar weapon; hence, the weapon itself; (Fig.) anything regarded as a shaft to be thrown or darted; as, shafts of light.
v. t.
A stab of iron welded to the side of a forging, as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging.
n.
The ventilating shaft of a mine out of which the air passes after having circulated through the mine; -- distinguished from the downcast. Called also upcast pit, and upcast shaft.
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A round of iron on the shaft of a tilting spear, to protect the hand.
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A solid or hollow cylinder or bar, having one or more journals on which it rests and revolves, and intended to carry one or more wheels or other revolving parts and to transmit power or motion; as, the shaft of a steam engine.
n.
A box or bucket in which coal or ore is sent up a shaft; -- so called by miners.
n.
A lining of timber or metal around the shaft of a mine; especially, a series of cast-iron cylinders bolted together, used to enable those who sink a shaft to penetrate quicksand, water, etc., with safety.
n.
Shafts, collectivelly; a system of connected shafts for communicating motion.
n.
A perpendicular shaft sunk to cut the lode at any required depth.
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