shaft

Meaning of shaft

noun
  1. The entire body of a long weapon, such as an arrow.
  2. The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin.
    Her hand slipped off the javelin's shaft towards the spearpoint and that's why her score was lowered.
  3. (by extension) Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin.
  4. Any long thin object, such as the handle of a tool, one of the poles between which an animal is harnessed to a vehicle, the driveshaft of a motorized vehicle with rear-wheel drive, an axle, etc.
  5. A beam or ray of light.
    Isn't that shaft of light from that opening in the cave beautiful?
  6. The main axis of a feather.
    I had no idea that they removed the feathers' shafts to make the pillows softer!
  7. 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!
  8. A vertical or inclined passage sunk into the earth as part of a mine
    Your grandfather used to work with a crane hauling ore out of the gold mine's shafts.
  9. A vertical passage housing a lift or elevator; a liftshaft.
    Darn it, my keys fell through the gap and into the elevator shaft.
  10. A ventilation or heating conduit; an air duct.
    Our parrot flew into the air duct and got stuck in the shaft.
  11. Any column or pillar, particularly the body of a column between its capital and pedestal.
  12. The main cylindrical part of the penis.
    The female labia minora is homologous to the penis shaft skin of males.
  13. The chamber of a blast furnace.
verb
  1. To fuck over; to cause harm to, especially through deceit or treachery.
    Your boss really shafted you by stealing your idea like that.
  2. To equip with a shaft.
  3. To fuck; to have sexual intercourse with.
    Turns out my roommate was shafting my girlfriend.

Information about shaft

  • The plural form of shaft is: shafts.
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Hyphenation of shaft

shaft

  • It consists of 1 syllables and 5 chars.
  • shaft is a word monosyllabic because it has one syllable

shaft synonyms

Meaning shot:

shot, slam, dig, barb, jibe, gibe

Meaning beam:

beam, ray, irradiation

Meaning diaphysis:

diaphysis

Meaning cock:

cock, prick, dick, pecker, peter, tool, putz

Meaning spear:

spear, lance

Meaning scape:

scape

Meaning quill:

quill, calamus

Meaning cheat:

cheat, chouse, screw, chicane, jockey

Meaning :

rachis, mineshaft, stail, stale, steal, steel, stele

Anagrams of shaft

hafts

Words that rhyme with shaft

haft, lebhaft, Aktiengesellschaft, Burschenschaft, Gemeinschaft, Gesellschaft, Markgenossenschaft, chaft, gemeinschaft, gesellschaft, unhaft, counterhaft, aftershaft, airshaft, camshaft, countershaft, crankshaft, driveshaft, fireshaft, foreshaft, jackshaft, landsmanshaft, layshaft, mineshaft, nonshaft, pickshaft, rockshaft, semishaft, smokeshaft, subshaft, tailshaft, turboshaft, upshaft, weighshaft

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