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Pillar :: Pillar (n.) The general and popular term for a firm, upright, insulated support for a superstructure; a pier, column, or post; also, a column or shaft not supporting a superstructure, as one erected for a monument or an ornament..

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

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

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

Cribbing :: Cribbing (n.) A framework of timbers and plank backing for a shaft lining, to prevent caving, percolation of water, etc..

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

Brattice :: Brattice (n.) A wall of separation in a shaft or gallery used for ventilation.

Fang :: Fang (v. t.) A niche in the side of an adit or shaft, for an air course..

Shaft :: Shaft (n.) The slender, smooth stem of an arrow; hence, an arrow..

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

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..

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.

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

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

Columnar :: Columnar (a.) Formed in columns; having the form of a column or columns; like the shaft of a column.

Countershaft :: Countershaft (n.) An intermediate shaft; esp., one which receives motion from a line shaft in a factory and transmits it to a machine..

Backband :: Backband (n.) The band which passes over the back of a horse and holds up the shafts of a carriage.

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..

Ginging :: Ginging (n.) The lining of a mine shaft with stones or bricks to prevent caving.

Heelpost :: Heelpost (n.) The post supporting the outer end of a propeller shaft.

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