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

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

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

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

Cradle :: Cradle (n.) A suspended scaffold used in shafts.

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

Wire-tailed :: Wire-tailed (a.) Having some or all of the tail quills terminated in a long, slender, pointed shaft, without a web or barbules..

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

Wiper :: Wiper (n.) A piece generally projecting from a rotating or swinging piece, as an axle or rock shaft, for the purpose of raising stampers, lifting rods, or the like, and leaving them to fall by their own weight; a kind of cam..

Drift :: Drift (n.) A passage driven or cut between shaft and shaft; a driftway; a small subterranean gallery; an adit or tunnel.

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..

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..

Scape :: Scape (n.) The apophyge of a shaft.

Cable :: Cable (n.) A molding, shaft of a column, or any other member of convex, rounded section, made to resemble the spiral twist of a rope; -- called also cable molding..

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

Hanger :: Hanger (n.) A part that suspends a journal box in which shafting runs. See Illust. of Countershaft.

Shathmont :: Shathmont (n.) A shaftment.

Trunk :: Trunk (n.) That part of a pilaster which is between the base and the capital, corresponding to the shaft of a column..

Vamplate :: Vamplate (n.) A round of iron on the shaft of a tilting spear, to protect the hand..

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..

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