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Word: shaft
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Meaning:
Noun:
- A beam or ray of light
- A long narrow passage sunk into the earth, for mining etc; a mineshaft.
- A malicious act, as in ?to give someone the shaft?
- 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.
- A ventilation or heating conduit; an air duct.
- A vertical or near-vertical cave passage.
- A vertical passage housing a lift or elevator; a liftshaft.
- axle
- drive shaft
- lacrosse The long narrow body of a lacrosse stick
- The long narrow body of a spear or arrow
- The main axis of a feather
- The main narrow part of the penis
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Verb:
- slang To engage in a malicious act; to rip off, as in "He got shafted."
- slang To have sexual intercourse with someone
- transitive to equip something with a shaft
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