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Trunk :: Trunk (n.) That part of a pilaster which is between the base and the capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column..

Galloper :: Galloper (n.) A carriage on which very small guns were formerly mounted, the gun resting on the shafts, without a limber..

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

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

Cleading :: Cleading (n.) The planking or boarding of a shaft, cofferdam, etc..

Rhachis :: Rhachis (n.) The shaft of a feather. The rhachis of the after-shaft, or plumule, is called the hyporhachis..

Rocker :: Rocker (n.) Same as Rock shaft.

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

Spear :: Spear (n.) A long, pointed weapon, used in war and hunting, by thrusting or throwing; a weapon with a long shaft and a sharp head or blade; a lance..

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..

Overhang :: Overhang (n.) The projection of a part beyond another part that is directly below it, or beyond a part by which it is supported; as, the overhang of a shaft; i. e., its projection beyond its bearing..

Sifilet :: Sifilet (n.) The six-shafted bird of paradise. See Paradise bird, under Paradise..

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..

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..

Pikestaff :: Pikestaff (n.) The staff, or shaft, of a pike..

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

Hypoptilum :: Hypoptilum (n.) An accessory plume arising from the posterior side of the stem of the contour feathers of many birds; -- called also aftershaft. See Illust. of Feather.

Entasis :: Entasis (n.) A slight convex swelling of the shaft of a column.

Feather :: Feather (n.) One of the fins or wings on the shaft of an arrow.

Bague :: Bague (n.) The annular molding or group of moldings dividing a long shaft or clustered column into two or more parts.

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