to shaft

Examples

• All

• The miners were shafted, excuse the pun.

  Outside Bet (2012)

• Inches away from my loafers, it fell away, the sheer, dropping black hole below us, so empty, that freon-cool, deep-shafted whistling air.

  Fiction book (1996)

• The workers decided to shaft a new vertical passage for the mining operation.

• The construction crew will shaft the elevator access to the top floor of the building.

• They needed to shaft deeper to reach the mineral deposits in the mine.

Compounds

E

elevator shaft

• Specialized

18 3.5

A tall narrow space in a building where an elevator moves up and down between floors

A

air shaft

6 4.7

A vertical passage in a building or mine that lets air move through spaces

V

ventilation shaft

• Specialized

5 4.5

A passage in a building that lets fresh air in and stale air out

S

shaft of light

4 3.5

A narrow beam of light that shines through an opening and lights a small area

T

transmission shaft

• Specialized

1 5.2

A metal rod that turns to carry power from an engine to the wheels

B

butt shaft

• Specialized

9.9

An arrow with a blunt tip used for safe target practice

R

rotating shaft

• Specialized

4.4

A rod that turns to move parts in a machine

R

rotor shaft

• Specialized

6.0

A long middle bar that the main rotor spins around in a helicopter

S

shaft encoder

• Specialized

8.0

A device that measures how a shaft turns and sends that information as a signal

S

shaft furnace

• Specialized

8.9

A tall vertical furnace that forces hot gas up through solid material to melt metal

S

shaft louse

• Specialized

9.9

A small insect that lives on chickens' feathers and causes itching

How Deep

to shaft

• Specialized

1 7.9

underground tunnel

7 3.2

pit

230 3.6

strip mine

• Specialized

2 6.0

Surface Forms

Etymology