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

Cowl :: Cowl (n.) A cowl-shaped cap, commonly turning with the wind, used to improve the draft of a chimney, ventilating shaft, etc..

Shaft :: Shaft (n.) A humming bird (Thaumastura cora) having two of the tail feathers next to the middle ones very long in the male; -- called also cora humming bird.

Trumpeting :: Trumpeting (n.) A channel cut behind the brick lining of a shaft.

Plumule :: Plumule (n.) The aftershaft of a feather. See Illust. under Feather.

Shaft :: Shaft (n.) The chamber of a blast furnace.

Module :: Module (n.) The size of some one part, as the diameter of semi-diameter of the base of a shaft, taken as a unit of measure by which the proportions of the other parts of the composition are regulated. Generally, for columns, the semi-diameter is taken, and divided into a certain number of parts, called minutes (see Minute), though often the diameter is taken, and any dimension is said to be so many modules and minutes in height, breadth, or projection..

Web :: Web (n.) The arm of a crank between the shaft and the wrist.

Heugh :: Heugh (n.) A shaft in a coal pit; a hollow in a quarry.

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 It is now superseded by the bayonet..

Boss :: Boss (n.) The enlarged part of a shaft, on which a wheel is keyed, or at the end, where it is coupled to another..

Downcast :: Downcast (n.) A ventilating shaft down which the air passes in circulating through a mine.

Underlayer :: Underlayer (n.) A perpendicular shaft sunk to cut the lode at any required depth.

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

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

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..

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..

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

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

Feathered :: Feathered (a.) Having feathers; -- said of an arrow, when the feathers are of a tincture different from that of the shaft..

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