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

Center :: Center (n.) A conical recess, or indentation, in the end of a shaft or other work, to receive the point of a center, on which the work can turn, as in a lathe..

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..

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..

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

Winze :: Winze (n.) A small shaft sunk from one level to another, as for the purpose of ventilation..

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

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

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

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..

Entasis :: Entasis (n.) A slight convex swelling of the shaft of a column.

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

Cannon :: Cannon (n.) A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently..

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

Semiplume :: Semiplume (n.) A feather which has a plumelike web, with the shaft of an ordinary feather..

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

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 It is now superseded by the bayonet..

Spindle :: Spindle (n.) The shaft, mandrel, or arbor, in a machine tool, as a lathe or drilling machine, etc., which causes the work to revolve, or carries a tool or center, etc..

Hyporadius :: Hyporadius (n.) One of the barbs of the hypoptilum, or aftershaft of a feather. See Feather..

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

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