ALL meanings of shaft
shaft
S s - noun shaft part of arrow, spear 1
- noun shaft ray: of light 1
- noun shaft part of feather 1
- noun shaft handle of golf club 1
- noun shaft air passage 1
- noun shaft for elevator, lift 1
- noun shaft pole, rod 1
- transitive verb shaft have sex with 1
- transitive verb shaft cheat 1
- noun shaft to attach horse to cart 1
- noun shaft into a mine 1
- noun shaft handle of tool 1
- noun shaft a long pole forming the body of various weapons, as lances, halberds, or arrows. 1
- noun shaft something directed or barbed as in sharp attack: shafts of sarcasm. 1
- noun shaft a ray or beam: a shaft of sunlight. 1
- noun shaft 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. 1
- noun shaft 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. 1
- noun shaft a flagpole. 1
- noun shaft Architecture. that part of a column or pier between the base and capital. any distinct, slender, vertical masonry feature engaged in a wall or pier and usually supporting or feigning to support an arch or vault. 1
- noun shaft a monument in the form of a column, obelisk, or the like. 1
- noun shaft either of the parallel bars of wood between which the animal drawing a vehicle is hitched. 1
- noun shaft any well-like passage or vertical enclosed space, as in a building: an elevator shaft. 1
- noun shaft Mining. a vertical or sloping passageway leading to the surface. 1
- noun shaft Botany. the trunk of a tree. 1
- noun shaft Zoology. the main stem or midrib of a feather. 1
- noun shaft 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. 1
- noun shaft the part of a candelabrum that supports the branches. 1
- verb with object shaft to push or propel with a pole: to shaft a boat through a tunnel. 1
- verb with object shaft Informal. to treat in a harsh, unfair, or treacherous manner. 1
- countable noun shaft A shaft is a long vertical passage, for example for a lift. 0
- countable noun shaft In a machine, a shaft is a rod that turns round continually in order to transfer movement in the machine. 0
- countable noun shaft A shaft is a long thin piece of wood or metal that forms part of a spear, axe, golf club, or other object. 0
- countable noun shaft A shaft of light is a beam of light, for example sunlight shining through an opening. 0
- noun shaft the long narrow pole that forms the body of a spear, arrow, etc 0
- noun shaft something directed at a person in the manner of a missile 0
- noun shaft a ray, beam, or streak, esp of light 0
- noun shaft a rod or pole forming the handle of a hammer, axe, golf club, etc 0
- noun shaft a revolving rod that transmits motion or power: usually used of axial rotation 0
- noun shaft one of the two wooden poles by which an animal is harnessed to a vehicle 0
- noun shaft the middle part (diaphysis) of a long bone 0
- noun shaft the main portion of any elongated structure or part 0
- noun shaft the middle part of a column or pier, between the base and the capital 0
- noun shaft a column, obelisk, etc, esp one that forms a monument 0
- noun shaft a column that supports a vaulting rib, sometimes one of a set 0
- noun shaft a vertical passageway through a building, as for a lift 0
- noun shaft a vertical passageway into a mine 0
- noun shaft the central rib of a feather 0
- verb shaft to have sexual intercourse with (a woman) 0
- verb shaft to trick or cheat 0
- noun shaft the long stem or body of an arrow or spear 0