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shaft

[ shaft, shahft ]

noun

  1. a long pole forming the body of various weapons, as lances, halberds, or arrows.
  2. something directed or barbed as in sharp attack:

    shafts of sarcasm.

  3. a ray or beam:

    a shaft of sunlight.

  4. a long, comparatively straight handle serving as an important or balancing part of an implement or device, as of a hammer, ax, golf club, or other implement.
  5. Machinery. a rotating or oscillating round, straight bar for transmitting motion and torque, usually supported on bearings and carrying gears, wheels, or the like, as a propeller shaft on a ship, or a drive shaft of an engine.
  6. a flagpole.
  7. Architecture.
    1. that part of a column or pier between the base and capital.
    2. any distinct, slender, vertical masonry feature engaged in a wall or pier and usually supporting or feigning to support an arch or vault.
  8. a monument in the form of a column, obelisk, or the like.
  9. either of the parallel bars of wood between which the animal drawing a vehicle is hitched.
  10. any well-like passage or vertical enclosed space, as in a building:

    an elevator shaft.

  11. Mining. a vertical or sloping passageway leading to the surface.
  12. Botany. the trunk of a tree.
  13. Zoology. the main stem or midrib of a feather.
  14. Also called leaf. Textiles. the harness or warp with reference to the pattern of interlacing threads in weave constructions (usually used in combination):

    an eight-shaft satin.

  15. the part of a candelabrum that supports the branches.
  16. Slang: Vulgar. the penis.
  17. Slang: harsh, unfair, or treacherous treatment:

    I feel like he’s giving me the shaft.



verb (used with object)

  1. to push or propel with a pole:

    to shaft a boat through a tunnel.

  2. Slang. to treat in a harsh, unfair, or treacherous manner.

shaft

/ ʃɑ˴ڳ٠/

noun

  1. the long narrow pole that forms the body of a spear, arrow, etc
  2. something directed at a person in the manner of a missile

    shafts of sarcasm

  3. a ray, beam, or streak, esp of light
  4. a rod or pole forming the handle of a hammer, axe, golf club, etc
  5. a revolving rod that transmits motion or power: usually used of axial rotation Compare rod
  6. one of the two wooden poles by which an animal is harnessed to a vehicle
  7. anatomy
    1. the middle part (diaphysis) of a long bone
    2. the main portion of any elongated structure or part
  8. the middle part of a column or pier, between the base and the capital
  9. a column, obelisk, etc, esp one that forms a monument
  10. architect a column that supports a vaulting rib, sometimes one of a set
  11. a vertical passageway through a building, as for a lift
  12. a vertical passageway into a mine
  13. ornithol the central rib of a feather
  14. an archaic or literary word for arrow
  15. get the shaft slang.
    to be tricked or cheated
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

verb

  1. slang.
    to have sexual intercourse with (a woman)
  2. slang.
    to trick or cheat
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged†2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of shaft1

First recorded before 1000; Middle English; Old English sceaft; cognate with German Schaft; compare Latin ²õ³¦Äå±è³Ü²õ “s³ó²¹´Ú³Ù,†Greek ²õ°ìê±è³Ù°ù´Ç²Ô scepter
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of shaft1

Old English sceaft; related to Old Norse skapt, German Schaft, Latin ²õ³¦Äå±è³Ü²õ shaft, Greek skeptron sceptre , Lettish skeps javelin

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