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shaft English

Meaning shaft meaning

What does shaft mean?
Definitions in simple English

shaft Noun

— A shaft is a long rod or pole.

shaft

— noun a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer — noun (= shot, dig) an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect his parting shot was 'drop dead' she threw shafts of sarcasm she takes a dig at me every chance she gets — noun a long rod or pole (especially the handle of an implement or the body of a weapon like a spear or arrow) — noun a long vertical passage sunk into the earth, as for a mine or tunnel — noun (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column — noun a vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator) — verb equip with a shaft — noun (= rotating shaft) a revolving rod that transmits power or motion — noun (= diaphysis) the main (mid) section of a long bone — noun (= spear) a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon — noun (= quill) the hollow spine of a feather — verb (= cheat) defeat someone through trickery or deceit — noun (= cock) obscene terms for penis — noun (= beam) a column of light (as from a beacon)

Synonyms shaft synonyms

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shaft English » English

pole handle arrow stem rod well axle staff dart axis bar spar quill pit stake spear thill shank scape ray mine helve trunk tool stick stave stalk spindle shot putz prick pivot peter pecker irradiation haft dick diaphysis cock cheat calamus beam barb arbor stock stipe stack slam shaft of light screw

Topics shaft topics

What do people use shaft to talk about?
Social behavior Conflict War

Weapon, shoot
Universe, creation World Land

Underground
Work and occupation Tool

Parts of tools
Physical actions Divide into pieces

Dig
States Quality

Light
Work and occupation Occupation Working with minerals

Mining

Conjugation shaft conjugation

How do you conjugate shaft?

shaft · verb

Examples shaft examples

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Simple sentences

This shaft links with a piston.
You are in a narrow rocky shaft. There is some light shining from far above. Below you is the cave you started in. What do you do now?

Movie subtitles

Give them the shaft.
And again, it's because we're united as miners, that comrade Kasper broke the gate in shaft 1315.
There's only one way to head them off. That's up this shaft.
The arrow. A wooden shaft through her heart, just as I drove the stake through his.
I think if you could sink a shaft in this north corner, right about here..
I've only a staff and you threaten me with a longbow and a goose shaft.
Plates are none too good. Propeller shaft took the line.
I threw it down the air shaft.
Shaft's twisted like a corkscrew, and there's a blade off the prop.
We could pull this old tub out, haul the shaft to the workshop and forge it straight again.
Then we put the new shaft in and the new prop and go on our way.
Couldn't you straighten the shaft without taking the boat up on shore?
If you could get the shaft up on shore, could you straighten it?
The shaft would be twisted up again.
The current gets her in deeper, and tried to pull her out, a shaft snaps in two. like a stick of macaroni.
That old shaft's been due to snap for the last twenty odd years.
Well, I gotta get a couple of boys trekking down to Saigon for help, and by the time I get a new shaft and propeller in it, it'll be, let me see now.
But like the power in the coal you dug, locked deep in the earth for a million years. the force in you still awaited release, and the stench and grime of Shaft Number 7 was part of your heritage.
He was killed over there in Shaft 15.
Is this the foreman of Shaft Number 7?
Or do you like them better out of the shaft?
Maybe you were thinking of those long days when you sweated. for old Wilson in Shaft Number 7, Pittsburgh.
Plates are none too good. Propellor shaft to align.
Brick! Got a bent strut and shaft on the port side. -You check your planking?
Propeller shaft took the line.
Elevator shaft.
You, Collins, throw a rock down that shaft.
Break out a spare shaft.
Break out a spare shaft!
There's a mine shaft down here.
He came down through the air shaft.
There aren't any clues. He came down the air shaft and went the same way.
I wondered if there was any way to get from the floor of that room into the elevator shaft itself.
There was an opening into the shaft.
Once I lowered myself into that shaft, I'd never have the strength to pull myself up again.
I wondered how much clearance there'd be between the roof of the elevator and the top of the shaft.

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