shafted Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb equip with a shaft
    shaft.
  2. verb defeat someone through trickery or deceit
    shaft; chouse; chicane; screw; cheat; jockey.

WordNet


Shaft"ed adjective
Definitions
  1. Furnished with a shaft, or with shafts; as, a shafted arch.
  2. (Her.) Having a shaft; -- applied to a spear when the head and the shaft are of different tinctures.

Webster 1913