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

Shaftment :: Shaftment (n.) A measure of about six inches.

Shaft :: Shaft (n.) The long handle of a spear or similar weapon; hence, the weapon itself; (Fig.) anything regarded as a shaft to be thrown or darted; as, shafts of light..

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

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

Shaft :: Shaft (n.) A long passage for the admission or outlet of air; an air shaft.

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

Collar :: Collar (n.) A curb, or a horizontal timbering, around the mouth of a shaft..

Hyporhachis :: Hyporhachis (n.) The stem of an aftershaft or hypoptilum.

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

Way Shaft :: Way shaft () An interior shaft, usually one connecting two levels..

Column :: Column (n.) Anything resembling, in form or position, a column in architecture; an upright body or mass; a shaft or obelisk; as, a column of air, of water, of mercury, etc.; the Column Vendome; the spinal column..

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

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

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

Hypoptilum :: Hypoptilum (n.) An accessory plume arising from the posterior side of the stem of the contour feathers of many birds; -- called also aftershaft. See Illust. of Feather.

Pin :: Pin (n.) A short shaft, sometimes forming a bolt, a part of which serves as a journal..

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..

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

Pike :: Pike (n. & v.) A foot soldier's weapon, consisting of a long wooden shaft or staff, with a pointed steel head. It is now superseded by the bayonet..

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