Definitions for shafting

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shafting shaft·ing

Spelling: [shaf-ting, shahf-]

IPA: /ˈʃæf tɪŋ, ˈʃɑf-/

Shafting is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 15 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 302 anagrams from letters in shafting (afghinst).

Definitions for shafting

noun

1. a number of shafts.
2. Machinery. a system of shafts, as the overhead shafts formerly used for driving the machinery of a mill.
3. steel bar stock used for shafts.
4. Architecture. a system of shafts, as those around a pier or in the reveals of an archway.
5. Slang. an instance of unique or unfair treatment:
6. a long pole forming the body of various weapons, as lances, halberds, or arrows.
7. something directed or barbed as in sharp attack:
8. a ray or beam:
9. 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.
10. 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.
11. a flagpole.
12. 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.
13. a monument in the form of a column, obelisk, or the like.
14. either of the parallel bars of wood between which the animal drawing a vehicle is hitched.
15. any well-like passage or vertical enclosed space, as in a building:
16. Mining. a vertical or sloping passageway leading to the surface.
17. Botany. the trunk of a tree.
18. Zoology. the main stem or midrib of a feather.
19. Also called leaf. Textiles. the harness or warp with reference to the pattern of interlacing threads in weave constructions (usually used in combination):
20. 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 shafting

First recorded in 1815-25; shaft + -ing¹

Examples for shafting

The owner of a saw-mill wanted a support made for a shafting.

Between these hulls were placed the paddle-wheels, working upon the shafting propelled by horses.

shafting and belting carry the power in every direction from the engine.

The government has been shafting veterans since the Civil War and the modern VA does well at upholding that tradition.

All the shafting is ornamented with a small ball-like enrichment.

A good chuck for this lathe is made, as shown in Fig. 3, of a piece of shafting 1-1/2 in.

The shafting is made of forged steel, 16½ inches in diameter.

Across the great sheds under the shafting—how fine it must look at night!

We fixed up a wheel for the other end and made a belt out of rawhide to turn the thing by hand until we got the shafting turned.

We had no lathe to turn the shafting, and we finally rigged a contrivance in the cabin wall to thrust one end into.