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

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

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..

Shafted :: Shafted (a.) Having a shaft; -- applied to a spear when the head and the shaft are of different tinctures.

Bolt :: Bolt (n.) A shaft or missile intended to be shot from a crossbow or catapult, esp. a short, stout, blunt-headed arrow; a quarrel; an arrow, or that which resembles an arrow; a dart..

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

Windmill :: Windmill (n.) A mill operated by the power of the wind, usually by the action of the wind upon oblique vanes or sails which radiate from a horizontal shaft..

Shathmont :: Shathmont (n.) A shaftment.

Groove :: Groove (n.) A shaft or excavation.

Neck :: Neck (n.) A reduction in size near the end of an object, formed by a groove around it; as, a neck forming the journal of a shaft..

Cincture :: Cincture (n.) The fillet, listel, or band next to the apophyge at the extremity of the shaft of a column..

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

Tongs :: Tongs (n. pl.) An instrument, usually of metal, consisting of two parts, or long shafts, jointed together at or near one end, or united by an elastic bow, used for handling things, especially hot coals or metals; -- often called a pair of tongs..

Butt Shaft :: Butt shaft () An arrow without a barb, for shooting at butts; an arrow..

Band :: Band (v. t.) In Gothic architecture, the molding, or suite of moldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts..

Limber :: Limber (n.) The shafts or thills of a wagon or carriage.

Shaftman :: Shaftman (n.) Alt. of Shaftmen.

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

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

Eye :: Eye (n.) A loop forming part of anything, or a hole through anything, to receive a rope, hook, pin, shaft, etc.; as an eye at the end of a tie bar in a bridge truss; as an eye through a crank; an eye at the end of rope..

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