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SH'AFT, n. L. scapus; from the root of shape, from setting, or shooting, extending.]

1. An arrow; a missile weapin; as the archer and the shaft.

So loftly was the pile, a Parthian bow

Whith vigor drawn must send the shaft below. Dryden.

2. In mining, a pit or long narrow opening or entrance into a mine. [This may possibly be a different word, as in German it is written schacht, Dan. skaegte.]

3. In architecture, the shaft of a column is the body of it, between the base and the capital.

4. Any thing straight; as the shaft of a steeple, and many other things.

5. The stem or stock of a fether or quill.

6. The pole of a carriage, sometimes called tongue or neap. The thills of a chaise or geg are also called shafts.

7. The handle of a weapon.

1913 Definition
Shaft (shaft)
n.(?)
Shaft
[OE. shaft, schaft, AS. sceaft; akin to D. schacht, OHG. scaft, G. schaft, Dan. *** Sw. skaft handle, haft, Icel. skapt, and probably to L. scapus, Gr. &?](?)(?)(?),
  1. The slender, smooth stem of an arrow; hence, an arrow.

    His sleep, his meat, his drink, is him bereft,
    That lean he wax, and dry as is a shaft.     Chaucer.

    A shaft hath three principal parts, the stele [stale], the feathers, and the head. Ascham.

  2. 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.

    And the thunder,
    Winged with red lightning and impetuous rage,
    Perhaps hath spent his shafts.     Milton.

    Some kinds of literary pursuits . . . have been attacked with all the shafts of ridicule. V. Knox.

  3. That which resembles in some degree the stem or handle of an arrow or a spear; a long, slender part, especially when cylindrical.
    Specifically: (a) (Bot.)
  4. 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.
  5. A well-like excavation in the earth, perpendicular or nearly so, made for reaching and raising ore, for raising water, etc.
  6. A long passage for the admission or outlet of air; an air shaft.
  7. The chamber of a blast furnace.

    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. - - Shaft alley (Naut.), a passage extending from the engine room to the stern, and containing the propeller shaft. -- 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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