shaft
轴,轴心,轴线,轴上
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Definitions
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- : a long pole forming the body of various weapons, as lances, halberds, or arrows.
- : something directed or barbed as in sharp attack: shafts of sarcasm.
- : a ray or beam: a shaft of sunlight.
- : a long, comparatively straight handle serving as an important or balancing part of an implement or device, as of a hammer, ax, golf club, or other implement.
- : Machinery. a rotating or oscillating round, straight bar for transmitting motion and torque, usually supported on bearings and carrying gears, wheels, or the like, as a propeller shaft on a ship, or a drive shaft of an engine.
- : a flagpole.
- : Architecture. that part of a column or pier between the base and capital.any distinct, slender, vertical masonry feature engaged in a wall or pier and usually supporting or feigning to support an arch or vault.
- : a monument in the form of a column, obelisk, or the like.
- : either of the parallel bars of wood between which the animal drawing a vehicle is hitched.
- : any well-like passage or vertical enclosed space, as in a building: an elevator shaft.
- : Mining. a vertical or sloping passageway leading to the surface.
- : Botany. the trunk of a tree.
- : Zoology. the main stem or midrib of a feather.
- : Also called leaf. Textiles. the harness or warp with reference to the pattern of interlacing threads in weave constructions: an eight-shaft satin.
- : the part of a candelabrum that supports the branches.
- : Slang: Vulgar. the penis.
- : Slang: harsh, unfair, or treacherous treatment: I feel like he’s giving me the shaft.
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- : to push or propel with a pole: to shaft a boat through a tunnel.
- : Slang. to treat in a harsh, unfair, or treacherous manner.
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Its most popular post was a story about a colony of humans living in elevator shafts.
They come in green or pink, and have a waterproof rubber exterior with a stretchy, nylon shaft.
Select a dead, dry hardwood stave for your bow, and pick some shoots or sucker growth for the arrow shafts.
The shafts surround the site of a Neolithic village called Durrington Walls.
Notches and wear at the bottom of the bone points indicate that they were attached to thin shafts.
Wandering around Tribeca, you may stumble upon a decrepit elevator shaft that's full of curiosities.
A man had killed himself by jumping out the window at the top, while a woman had done so by jumping down the elevator shaft.
In one tragic incident in 1965, a man named Bob Restall passed out in the shaft and fell into the water.
Any celebration of these findings was quickly quashed as the shaft continued to flood and delay the work.
For decades, explorers struggled to cap an endless flood of water that prevented access to the shaft.
His arm was drawn around the drum, and finally his whole body was drawn over the shaft, at a fearful rate.
"I did n't fly off the handle," said the screw, twirling huskily at the end of the screw-shaft.
It was placed immediately over the shaft and pump-rods, requiring no engine-beam.
The case was fixed over the engine-shaft on two beams of timber from wall to wall.
The pole-case was fixed to strong beams immediately over the pump-shaft.