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Windmill :: Windmill (n.) A mill operated by the power of the wind, usually by the action of the wind upon oblique vanes or sails which radiate from a horizontal shaft..

Web :: Web (n.) The arm of a crank between the shaft and the wrist.

Pin :: Pin (n.) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal..

Boultin :: Boultin (n.) One of the shafts of a clustered column.

Columnar :: Columnar (a.) Formed in columns; having the form of a column or columns; like the shaft of a column.

Fast :: Fast (n.) The shaft of a column, or trunk of pilaster..

Diaphysis :: Diaphysis (n.) The shaft, or main part, of a bone, which is first ossified..

Cincture :: Cincture (n.) The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column..

Groove :: Groove (n.) A shaft or excavation.

Coupling :: Coupling (n.) A device or contrivance which serves to couple or connect adjacent parts or objects; as, a belt coupling, which connects the ends of a belt; a car coupling, which connects the cars in a train; a shaft coupling, which connects the ends of shafts..

Module :: Module (n.) The size of some one part, as the diameter of semi-diameter of the base of a shaft, taken as a unit of measure by which the proportions of the other parts of the composition are regulated. Generally, for columns, the semi-diameter is taken, and divided into a certain number of parts, called minutes (see Minute), though often the diameter is taken, and any dimension is said to be so many modules and minutes in height, breadth, or projection..

Tubbing :: Tubbing (n.) A lining of timber or metal around the shaft of a mine; especially, a series of cast-iron cylinders bolted together, used to enable those who sink a shaft to penetrate quicksand, water, etc., with safety..

Wire-tailed :: Wire-tailed (a.) Having some or all of the tail quills terminated in a long, slender, pointed shaft, without a web or barbules..

Guard :: Guard (v. t.) An extension of the deck of a vessel beyond the hull; esp., in side-wheel steam vessels, the framework of strong timbers, which curves out on each side beyond the paddle wheel, and protects it and the shaft against collision..

Tilt Hammer :: Tilt hammer () A tilted hammer; a heavy hammer, used in iron works, which is lifted or tilted by projections or wipers on a revolving shaft; a trip hammer..

Lug :: Lug (n.) The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.

Shaft :: Shaft (n.) A long passage for the admission or outlet of air; an air shaft.

Shaft :: Shaft (n.) 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..

Truncheon :: Truncheon (n.) A short staff, a club; a cudgel; a shaft of a spear..

Shaft :: Shaft (n.) A pole, especially a Maypole..

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