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- English Word Shaft Definition The pole, or tongue, of a vehicle; also, a thill.
- English Word Shaft Definition The part of a candlestick which supports its branches.
- English Word Shaft Definition The handle or helve of certain tools, instruments, etc., as a hammer, a whip, etc.
- English Word Shaft Definition A pole, especially a Maypole.
- English Word Shaft Definition The body of a column; the cylindrical pillar between the capital and base (see Illust. of Column). Also, the part of a chimney above the roof. Also, the spire of a steeple.
- English Word Shaft Definition A column, an obelisk, or other spire-shaped or columnar monument.
- English Word Shaft Definition A rod at the end of a heddle.
- English Word Shaft Definition 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.
- English Word Shaft Definition A humming bird (Thaumastura cora) having two of the tail feathers next to the middle ones very long in the male; -- called also cora humming bird.
- English Word Shaft Definition A well-like excavation in the earth, perpendicular or nearly so, made for reaching and raising ore, for raising water, etc.
- English Word Shaft Definition A long passage for the admission or outlet of air; an air shaft.
- English Word Shaft Definition The chamber of a blast furnace.
- English Word Shafted Definition Furnished with a shaft, or with shafts; as, a shafted arch.
- English Word Shafted Definition Having a shaft; -- applied to a spear when the head and the shaft are of different tinctures.
- English Word Shafting Definition Shafts, collectivelly; a system of connected shafts for communicating motion.
- English Word Shaftman Definition Alt. of Shaftment
- English Word Shaftment Definition A measure of about six inches.
- English Word Shag Definition Coarse hair or nap; rough, woolly hair.
- English Word Shag Definition A kind of cloth having a long, coarse nap.
- English Word Shag Definition A kind of prepared tobacco cut fine.