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Backband :: Backband (n.) The band which passes over the back of a horse and holds up the shafts of a carriage.

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

Vagina :: Vagina (n.) The shaft of a terminus, from which the bust of figure seems to issue or arise..

Use :: Use (v. t.) A stab of iron welded to the side of a forging, as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging..

Butt Shaft :: Butt shaft () An arrow without a barb, for shooting at butts; an arrow..

Scape :: Scape (n.) The apophyge of a shaft.

Intercolumniation :: Intercolumniation (n.) The clear space between two columns, measured at the bottom of their shafts..

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

Center :: Center (n.) A conical recess, or indentation, in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe..

Tongs :: Tongs (n. pl.) An instrument, usually of metal, consisting of two parts, or long shafts, jointed together at or near one end, or united by an elastic bow, used for handling things, especially hot coals or metals; -- often called a pair of tongs..

Drum :: Drum (n.) One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed; also, a vertical wall, whether circular or polygonal in plan, carrying a cupola or dome..

Draglink :: Draglink (n.) A link connecting the cranks of two shafts.

Foundershaft :: Foundershaft (n.) The first shaft sunk.

Nib :: Nib (n.) One of the handles which project from a scythe snath; also, [Prov. Eng.], the shaft of a wagon..

Cabling :: Cabling (n.) The decoration of a fluted shaft of a column or of a pilaster with reeds, or rounded moldings, which seem to be laid in the hollows of the fluting. These are limited in length to about one third of the height of the shaft..

Column :: Column (n.) Anything resembling, in form or position, a column in architecture; an upright body or mass; a shaft or obelisk; as, a column of air, of water, of mercury, etc.; the Column Vendome; the spinal column..

Aftershaft :: Aftershaft (n.) The hypoptilum.

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

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..

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

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