Dictionary Entry
shaft
shaft is a 5-letter English word with 31 senses as noun and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The slender, smooth stem of an arrow; hence, an arrow. Face value is 11 in Scrabble and 10 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
5 letters · Scrabble 11 · Words With Friends 10 · 31 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
The slender, smooth stem of an arrow; hence, an arrow.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
That which resembles in some degree the stem or handle of an arrow or a spear; a long, slender part, especially when cylindrical.
- 4noun
The trunk, stem, or stalk of a plant.
- 5noun
The stem or midrib of a feather.
- 6noun
The pole, or tongue, of a vehicle; also, a thill.
- 7noun
The part of a candlestick which supports its branches.
- 8noun
The handle or helve of certain tools, instruments, etc., as a hammer, a whip, etc.
- 9noun
A pole, especially a Maypole.
- 10noun
The body of a column; the cylindrical pillar between the capital and base (See Illust. of Column). Also, the part of a chimney above the roof. Also, the spire of a steeple.
- 11noun
A column, an obelisk, or other spire-shaped or columnar monument.
- 12noun
A rod at the end of a heddle.
- 13noun
A solid or hollow cylinder or bar, having one or more journals on which it rests and revolves, and intended to carry one or more wheels or other revolving parts and to transmit power or motion; as, the shaft of a steam engine.
- 14noun
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.
- 15noun
A well-like excavation in the earth, perpendicular or nearly so, made for reaching and raising ore, for raising water, etc.
- 16noun
A long passage for the admission or outlet of air; an air shaft.
- 17noun
The chamber of a blast furnace.
- 18noun
the hollow spine of a feather
- 19noun
a revolving rod that transmits power or motion
- 20noun
a long rod or pole (especially the handle of an implement or the body of a weapon like a spear or arrow)
- 21noun
a long vertical passage sunk into the earth, as for a mine or tunnel
- 22noun
(architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column
Synonyms
- 23noun
a vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator)
- 24noun
a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon
- 25noun
obscene terms for penis
- 26noun
the main (mid) section of a long bone
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- 27noun
an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
"his parting shot was `drop dead'"
"she threw shafts of sarcasm"
- 28noun
a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer
- 29noun
a column of light (as from a beacon)
Synonyms
- 30verb
defeat someone through trickery or deceit
- 31verb
equip with a shaft
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