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

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

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

Shafting :: Shafting (n.) Shafts, collectivelly; a system of connected shafts for communicating motion..

Lance :: Lance (n.) A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen, and often decorated with a small flag; also, a spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen..

Eccentric :: Eccentric (n.) A disk or wheel so arranged upon a shaft that the center of the wheel and that of the shaft do not coincide. It is used for operating valves in steam engines, and for other purposes. The motion derived is precisely that of a crank having the same throw..

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

Nib :: Nib (n.) One of the handles which project from a scythe snath; also, [Prov. Eng.], the shaft of a wagon..

Apophyge :: Apophyge (n.) The small hollow curvature given to the top or bottom of the shaft of a column where it expands to meet the edge of the fillet; -- called also the scape.

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

Neck :: Neck (n.) A reduction in size near the end of an object, formed by a groove around it; as, a neck forming the journal of a shaft..

Arbalist :: Arbalist (n.) A crossbow, consisting of a steel bow set in a shaft of wood, furnished with a string and a trigger, and a mechanical device for bending the bow. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc..

Frustum :: Frustum (n.) One of the drums of the shaft of a column.

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

Plumming :: Plumming (n.) The operation of finding, by means of a mine dial, the place where to sink an air shaft, or to bring an adit to the work, or to find which way the lode inclines..

Flight :: Flight (n.) A kind of arrow for the longbow; also, the sport of shooting with it. See Shaft..

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

Driving :: Driving (a.) Communicating force; impelling; as, a driving shaft..

Beam :: Beam (n.) A heavy iron lever having an oscillating motion on a central axis, one end of which is connected with the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft; -- called also working beam or walking beam..

Gorgerin :: Gorgerin (n.) In some columns, that part of the capital between the termination of the shaft and the annulet of the echinus, or the space between two neck moldings; -- called also neck of the capital, and hypotrachelium. See Illust. of Column..

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