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Bonnet :: Bonnet (n.) A roofing over the cage of a mine, to protect its occupants from objects falling down the shaft..

Axle :: Axle (n.) A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree.

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

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

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

Bolt :: Bolt (n.) A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart..

Cincture :: Cincture (n.) The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column..

Fill :: Fill (n.) One of the thills or shafts of a carriage.

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

Lander :: Lander (n.) A person who waits at the mouth of the shaft to receive the kibble of ore.

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

Prickshaft :: Prickshaft (n.) An arrow.

Shaft :: Shaft (n.) The part of a candlestick which supports its branches.

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

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

Key :: Key (n.) A bar, pin or wedge, to secure a crank, pulley, coupling, etc., upon a shaft, and prevent relative turning; sometimes holding by friction alone, but more frequently by its resistance to shearing, being usually embedded partly in the shaft and partly in the crank, pulley, etc..

Vagina :: Vagina (n.) The shaft of a terminus, from which the bust of figure seems to issue or arise..

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..

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

Air Shaft :: Air shaft () A passage, usually vertical, for admitting fresh air into a mine or a tunnel..

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