shaft
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[edit] English
[edit] Etymology
Old English sceaft, from Germanic *skaftaz. Cognate with Dutch schaft, German Schaft, Swedish skaft.
[edit] Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ɑːft
[edit] Noun
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shaft (plural shafts)
- The long narrow body of a spear or arrow
- Her hand slipped off the javelin's shaft towards the spearpoint and that's why her score was lowered, Sam.
- A beam or ray of light
- Isn't that shaft of light from that opening in the cave beautiful?
- Any long thin object, such as the handle of a tool, one of the poles between which an animal is harnessed to a vehicle, or the driveshaft of a motorized vehicle with rear-wheel drive.
- Dude, the baseball bat's shaft got broken by the amazing pitch!
- The main axis of a feather
- I had no idea that they removed the feathers' shafts to make the pillows softer!
- (lacrosse) The long narrow body of a lacrosse stick
- Sarah, if you wear gloves your hands might not slip on your shaft and you can up your game, girl!
- A long narrow passage sunk into the earth, for mining etc; a mineshaft.
- Your grandfather used to work with a crane hauling ore out of the gold mine's shafts.
- A vertical or near-vertical cave passage.
- A vertical passage housing a lift or elevator; a liftshaft.
- Darn it, my keys fell through the gap and into the elevator shaft.
- A ventilation or heating conduit; an air duct.
- Our parrot flew into the air duct and got stuck in the shaft.
- A malicious act, as in “to give someone the shaft”
- That bitch at work gave me the shaft, she ratted me out to the boss for being late!
- The main narrow part of the penis
- I grabbed his penis by the shaft and squeezed it hard to his grudging approval.
[edit] Translations
long narrow body of spear or arrow
beam or ray of light
any long, thin object
long narrow passage sunk into the earth
vertical passage housing a lift
ventilation or heating conduit
the shaft of the penis
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[edit] Verb
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to shaft (third-person singular simple present shafts, present participle shafting, simple past and past participle shafted)
- (transitive) to equip something with a shaft
- (transitive, slang) To have sexual intercourse with someone
- (transitive, slang) To engage in a malicious act; to rip off, as in "He got shafted."