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Scepterellate :: Scepterellate (a.) Having a straight shaft with whorls of spines; -- said of certain sponge spicules. See Illust. under Spicule.

Blower :: Blower (n.) A device for producing a current of air; as: (a) A metal plate temporarily placed before the upper part of a grate or open fire. (b) A machine for producing an artificial blast or current of air by pressure, as for increasing the draft of a furnace, ventilating a building or shaft, cleansing gram, etc..

Step :: Step (v. i.) In general, a framing in wood or iron which is intended to receive an upright shaft; specif., a block of wood, or a solid platform upon the keelson, supporting the heel of the mast..

Shaft :: Shaft (n.) A column, an obelisk, or other spire-shaped or columnar monument..

Aftershaft :: Aftershaft (n.) The hypoptilum.

Trumpeting :: Trumpeting (n.) A channel cut behind the brick lining of a shaft.

Shaft :: Shaft (n.) The handle or helve of certain tools, instruments, etc., as a hammer, a whip, etc..

Twist :: Twist (v. t.) To distort, as a solid body, by turning one part relatively to another about an axis passing through both; to subject to torsion; as, to twist a shaft..

Lum :: Lum (n.) A ventilating chimney over the shaft of a mine.

Shafted :: Shafted (a.) Having a shaft; -- applied to a spear when the head and the shaft are of different tinctures.

Tram :: Tram (n.) The shaft of a cart.

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

Cimbia :: Cimbia (n.) A fillet or band placed around the shaft of a column as if to strengthen it.

Shaft :: Shaft (n.) The chamber of a blast furnace.

Shaft :: Shaft (n.) That which resembles in some degree the stem or handle of an arrow or a spear; a long, slender part, especially when cylindrical..

Lodge :: Lodge (n.) The space at the mouth of a level next the shaft, widened to permit wagons to pass, or ore to be deposited for hoisting; -- called also platt..

Drift :: Drift (n.) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.

Stang :: Stang (n.) A long bar; a pole; a shaft; a stake.

Groomer :: Groomer (n.) One who, or that which, grooms horses; especially, a brush rotated by a flexible or jointed revolving shaft, for cleaning horses..

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

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