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Cage :: Cage (n.) The box, bucket, or inclosed platform of a lift or elevator; a cagelike structure moving in a shaft..

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

Downcast :: Downcast (n.) A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.

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..

Shaft :: Shaft (n.) The pole, or tongue, of a vehicle; also, a thill..

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

Cog :: Cog (n.) A tooth, cam, or catch for imparting or receiving motion, as on a gear wheel, or a lifter or wiper on a shaft; originally, a separate piece of wood set in a mortise in the face of a wheel..

Aftershaft :: Aftershaft (n.) The hypoptilum.

Hyporadius :: Hyporadius (n.) One of the barbs of the hypoptilum, or aftershaft of a feather. See Feather..

Trepan :: Trepan (n.) A kind of broad chisel for sinking shafts.

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

Millwork :: Millwork (n.) The shafting, gearing, and other driving machinery of mills..

Pit :: Pit (n.) The shaft of a coal mine; a coal pit.

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..

Vireton :: Vireton (n.) An arrow or bolt for a crossbow having feathers or brass placed at an angle with the shaft to make it spin in flying.

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

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

Spinetail :: Spinetail (n.) Any one or several species of swifts of the genus Acanthylis, or Chaetura, and allied genera, in which the shafts of the tail feathers terminate in rigid spines..

Pillar :: Pillar (n.) The general and popular term for a firm, upright, insulated support for a superstructure; a pier, column, or post; also, a column or shaft not supporting a superstructure, as one erected for a monument or an ornament..

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..

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