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Lug :: Lug (n.) The leather loop or ear by which a shaft is held up.

Spindle :: Spindle (n.) A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed.

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

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 It is now superseded by the bayonet..

Stulp :: Stulm (n.) A shaft or gallery to drain a mine.

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.

Shathmont :: Shathmont (n.) A shaftment.

Shaft :: Shaft (n.) The stem or midrib of a feather.

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

Prickshaft :: Prickshaft (n.) An arrow.

Brace :: Brace (n.) The mouth of a shaft.

Drum :: Drum (n.) One of the cylindrical, or nearly cylindrical, blocks, of which the shaft of a column is composed; also, a vertical wall, whether circular or polygonal in plan, carrying a cupola or dome..

Lancewood :: Lancewood (n.) A tough, elastic wood, often used for the shafts of gigs, archery bows, fishing rods, and the like. Also, the tree which produces this wood, Duguetia Quitarensis (a native of Guiana and Cuba), and several other trees of the same family (Anonaseae)..

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

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..

Crib :: Crib (n.) A structure or frame of timber for a foundation, or for supporting a roof, or for lining a shaft..

Whip :: Whip (v. t.) The length of the arm reckoned from the shaft.

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

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

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

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