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

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

Winze :: Winze (n.) A small shaft sunk from one level to another, as for the purpose of ventilation..

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

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

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..

Lever :: Lever (n.) An arm on a rock shaft, to give motion to the shaft or to obtain motion from it..

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

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..

Cowl :: Cowl (n.) A cowl-shaped cap, commonly turning with the wind, used to improve the draft of a chimney, ventilating shaft, etc..

Sollar :: Sollar (n.) A platform in a shaft, especially one of those between the series of ladders in a shaft..

Cable :: Cable (n.) A molding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope; -- called also cable molding..

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

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

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

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

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..

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..

Way Shaft :: Way shaft () A rock shaft.

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

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