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Shafting :: Shafting (n.) Shafts, collectivelly; a system of connected shafts for communicating motion..

Pike :: Pike (n. & v.) A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is now superseded by the bayonet..

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..

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..

Staple :: Staple (n.) A shaft, smaller and shorter than the principal one, joining different levels..

Shaft :: Shaft (n.) A humming bird (Thaumastura cora) having two of the tail feathers next to the middle ones very long in the male; -- called also cora humming bird.

Shafted :: Shafted (a.) Furnished with a shaft, or with shafts; as, a shafted arch..

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..

Shaft :: Shaft (n.) The trunk, stem, or stalk of a plant..

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

Verge :: Verge (n.) The shaft of a column, or a small ornamental shaft..

Hanger :: Hanger (n.) A part that suspends a journal box in which shafting runs. See Illust. of Countershaft.

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

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

Boss :: Boss (n.) The enlarged part of a shaft, on which a wheel is keyed, or at the end, where it is coupled to another..

Bar :: Bar (n.) A broad shaft, or band, or stripe; as, a bar of light; a bar of color..

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

Vamplate :: Vamplate (n.) A round of iron on the shaft of a tilting spear, to protect the hand..

Crank :: Crank (n.) A bent portion of an axle, or shaft, or an arm keyed at right angles to the end of a shaft, by which motion is imparted to or received from it; also used to change circular into reciprocating motion, or reciprocating into circular motion. See Bell crank..

Drib :: Drib (v. t. & i.) To shoot (a shaft) so as to pierce on the descent.

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