shaft : Idioms & Phrases

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air shaft

  • noun a shaft for ventilation
    air well.
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Air" shaft`
Definitions
  1. A passage, usually vertical, for admitting fresh air into a mine or a tunnel.
Webster 1913

Angle shaft

  • (Arch.), an enriched angle bead, often having a capital or base, or both.
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Banded architrave, pier, shaft, etc.

  • (Arch.), an architrave, pier, etc., of which the regular profile is interrupted by blocks or projections crossing it at right angles.
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butt shaft

  • noun a blunt arrow without a barb; an arrow used for target practice
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Butt" shaft`
Definitions
  1. An arrow without a barb, for shooting at butts; an arrow. Also but shaft. Shak.
Webster 1913

Crank shaft

  • a shaft bent into a crank, or having a crank fastened to it, by which it drives or is driven.
Webster 1913

elevator shaft

  • noun a vertical shaft in a building to permit the passage of an elevator from floor to floor
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Jack shaft

  • (Mach.), the first intermediate shaft, in a factory or mill, which receives power, through belts or gearing, from a prime mover, and transmits it, by the same means, to other intermediate shafts or to a line shaft.
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Line shaft

  • (Mach.), a main shaft of considerable length, in a shop or factory, usually bearing a number of pulleys by which machines are driven, commonly by means of countershafts; called also line, or main line.
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Paddle shaft

  • the revolving shaft which carries the paddle wheel of a steam vessel.
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red-shafted flicker

  • noun western United States bird with red undersurface to wings and tail
    Colaptes caper collaris.
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rock shaft

Rock" shaft`
Etymology
Cf. Rock, v. i.
Definitions
  1. (Mach.) A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, -- usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines; -- called also rocker, rocking shaft, and way shaft.
Webster 1913

Rocking shaft

  • . (Mach.) See Rock shaft.
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rotating shaft

  • noun a revolving rod that transmits power or motion
    shaft.
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rotor shaft

  • noun the axis around which the major rotor of a helicopter turns
    rotor head.
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Shaft alley

  • (Naut.), a passage extending from the engine room to the stern, and containing the propeller shaft.
Webster 1913

Shaft furnace

  • (Metal.), a furnace, in the form of a chimney, which is charged at the top and tapped at the bottom.
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shaft louse

  • noun a louse parasitic on poultry
    Menopon palladum; chicken louse; Menopon gallinae.
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shaft of light

  • noun a column of light (as from a beacon)
    shaft; ray of light; irradiation; beam; beam of light; light beam; ray.
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transmission shaft

  • noun rotating shaft that transmits rotary motion from the engine to the differential
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Tunnel pit, Tunnel shaft

  • a pit or shaft sunk from the top of the ground to the level of a tunnel, for drawing up the earth and stones, for ventilation, lighting, and the like.
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ventilation shaft

  • noun a shaft in a building; serves as an air passage for ventilation
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way shaft

Way" shaft`
Definitions
  1. (Mach.) A rock shaft.
  2. (Mining) An interior shaft, usually one connecting two levels. Raymond.
Webster 1913

Whim shaft

  • (Mining), a shaft through which ore, water, etc., is raised from a mine by means of a whim.
Webster 1913

yellow-shafted flicker

  • noun large flicker of eastern North America with a red neck and yellow undersurface to wings and tail
    Colaptes auratus; yellowhammer.
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