Defeat someone through trickery or deceit.
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Examples for "shaft"
Examples for "shaft"
1Over the mountains in the east came the first shaft of day.
2This was the farthest point from the shaft in the entire mine.
3Used four times at the base of the shaft near the tower.
4She almost didn't see it in time- averticalshaft yawning directly ahead.
5A minute later, ballast men slide into view in the secondary shaft.
1Austria, also, claims the honour of the invention of the screw steamer.
2The faint crunching sound of the screw going into the wood ceased.
3Nail or screw the buttons to the table, as shown in Fig.
4The screw had two arms and was over nine feet in circumference.
5Just a screw-up on my part. Neither starting quarterback returned to action.
1This week, the fight against drugs, but sport athletes continue to cheat.
2Biden has often said publicly he worries Trump would try to cheat.
3I return with everybody's least favourite subject: the premature Oscar cheat sheet.
4You'll cheat the movement instead of simply doing it the right way.
5It's that time of year again... nerves, cheat sheets and general panic.
1The reason for the jockey's outburst was a simple question from Evans.
2I was exactly where I wanted to be, the winning jockey said.
3They weighed several times as much as a fully geared Jacket jockey.
4The preparation of the other animal, the jockey, is nothing to it.
5The obvious place to start was to interview his jockey and trainer.
1The new recruit in the army of business chicane nodded his head.
2But the present extravagant proposition can only lead to chicane and quarrels.
3You want a field for your remarkable talent for conspiracy and chicane.
4Roebuck was the keystone of the arch that sustained the structure of chicane.
5Coming out of the chicane the Frenchman overcooked it and crashed.
1I wouldn't chouse you for the world.
2Of chouse you don't remember it.
3Answer me this: Hast thou ever fibbed a chouse quarrons in the Rome pad for the loure in his bung?
4If I'd known you boys did nothing but chouse horses around all night, I don't know that I would have come.
5But if you want me to cut him out of your string of eligibles, say the word, and I'll chouse him out.
6It also brought him an unremunerative case where some villains were trying to chouse some negro orphans out of $700.
7After the Indians wipe out enough of them you get your public outcry, and we go chouse the Indians out of the way.
8Whereof I be all in a quandary, for it do seem I wus within an ames ace of a havin bin chouse flickur'd meself.
9He introduced himself as Mr Nicholas Chouse, agent for the Swampyville Land Company.
10Split me asunder if he would not say that I had choused him!
11But in the matter of his sweet self, he had been choused, as he termed it.
12The crocodile had "choused" him out of his favourite supper.
13I've been thoroughly gulled by that fellow Chouse.
14And sows of sucking pigs are chous'd:
15"I'm too full of liquor to be chousing horses in the dark."
16He jolly well choused himself, he did, if he thought he could make us sit up with his roast-meat story!