shaft
noun
[ ʃɑːft ]
• a long, narrow part or section forming the handle of a tool or club, the body of a spear or arrow, or similar.
• "the shaft of a golf club"
Similar:
pole,
stick,
rod,
staff,
shank,
upright,
handle,
hilt,
butt,
stock,
stem,
pikestaff,
thill,
helve,
quill,
rachis,
• a ray of light or bolt of lightning.
• "a shaft of sunlight"
• a long, narrow, typically vertical hole that gives access to a mine, accommodates a lift in a building, or provides ventilation.
Similar:
mineshaft,
tunnel,
passage,
pit,
adit,
downcast,
upcast,
borehole,
bore,
duct,
air shaft,
well,
light well,
flue,
vent,
winze,
• a man's penis.
shaft
verb
• (of light) shine in beams.
• "brilliant sunshine shafted through the skylight"
• (of a man) have sex with.
Origin:
Old English scæft, sceaft ‘handle, pole’, of Germanic origin; related to Dutch schaft, German Schaft, and perhaps also to sceptre. Early senses of the verb (late Middle English) were ‘fit with a handle’ and ‘send out shafts of light’.
