Definitions for shaft

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shaft shaft

Spelling: [shaft, shahft]

IPA: /ʃæft, ʃɑft/

Shaft is a 5 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 10 points.

You can make 49 anagrams from letters in shaft (afhst).

Definitions for shaft

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:
3. a ray or beam:
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. 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.
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:
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):
15. the part of a candelabrum that supports the branches.

verb (used with object)

1. to push or propel with a pole:
2. Informal. to treat in a harsh, unfair, or treacherous manner.

Origin of shaft

before 1000; Middle English; Old English sceaft; cognate with German Schaft; compare Latin scāpus shaft, Greek skêptron scepter

Examples for shaft

In one tragic incident in 1965, a man named Bob Restall passed out in the shaft and fell into the water.

Any celebration of these findings was quickly quashed as the shaft continued to flood and delay the work.

It is but the eye to the cord, the cord to the shaft, and the shaft to the mark.

But Johnny slithered into the shaft, crawled five hundred feet into the earth.

No shaft that Percival was able to fashion had point enough to pierce it.

Presently Percival found himself again at the bottom of the shaft.

The elevator stopped at the bottom of the shaft, and the men flipped on their flashlights.

"You are the surer, Watkin," said Aylward, standing by them with shaft upon string.

For decades, explorers struggled to cap an endless flood of water that prevented access to the shaft.

Now they neared the foot of the shaft where the rest of the party seemed to await them.