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Step :: Step (v. i.) A bearing in which the lower extremity of a spindle or a vertical shaft revolves.

Limber :: Limber (n.) The detachable fore part of a gun carriage, consisting of two wheels, an axle, and a shaft to which the horses are attached. On top is an ammunition box upon which the cannoneers sit..

Underlayer :: Underlayer (n.) A perpendicular shaft sunk to cut the lode at any required depth.

Shafted :: Shafted (a.) Having a shaft; -- applied to a spear when the head and the shaft are of different tinctures.

Drift :: Drift (n.) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.

Gudgeon :: Gudgeon (n.) The pin of iron fastened in the end of a wooden shaft or axle, on which it turns; formerly, any journal, or pivot, or bearing, as the pintle and eye of a hinge, but esp. the end journal of a horizontal..

Bank :: Bank (n.) The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank..

Shaft :: Shaft (n.) The part of a candlestick which supports its branches.

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..

Groomer :: Groomer (n.) One who, or that which, grooms horses; especially, a brush rotated by a flexible or jointed revolving shaft, for cleaning horses..

Lum :: Lum (n.) A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine.

Countershaft :: Countershaft (n.) An intermediate shaft; esp., one which receives motion from a line shaft in a factory and transmits it to a machine..

Driving :: Driving (a.) Communicating force; impelling; as, a driving shaft..

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

Way Shaft :: Way shaft () An interior shaft, usually one connecting two levels..

Twist :: Twist (v. t.) To distort, as a solid body, by turning one part relatively to another about an axis passing through both; to subject to torsion; as, to twist a shaft..

Bearing :: Bearing (n.) The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal..

Semiplume :: Semiplume (n.) A feather which has a plumelike web, with the shaft of an ordinary feather..

Chimney :: Chimney (n.) That part of a building which contains the smoke flues; esp. an upright tube or flue of brick or stone, in most cases extending through or above the roof of the building. Often used instead of chimney shaft..

Sill :: Sill (n.) The shaft or thill of a carriage.

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