A column of light (as from a beacon)
Underground vertical or inclined passageway in civil and mining engineering.
Part of a lacrosse stick.
Синонимы
Examples for "shafts "
Examples for "shafts "
1 Such shafts are dug in the hope of extracting water or oil.
2 The shafts revolved at a velocity of about 60 miles an hour.
3 The horse gave a convulsive stagger and fell dead in the shafts .
4 Soon the company will start demolishing the tunnels and sinking concrete shafts .
5 Production at two shafts had stopped because of the protests, it said.
Другие значения термина "shaft" 1 Over the mountains in the east came the first shaft of day.
2 This was the farthest point from the shaft in the entire mine.
3 Used four times at the base of the shaft near the tower.
4 She almost didn't see it in time- a vertical shaft yawning directly ahead.
5 A minute later, ballast men slide into view in the secondary shaft .
6 Wayland and the others were examining the black wall of the shaft .
7 There was no question of going up the stairs, lift or shaft .
8 A shattering shaft of light flashed upon the veils; almost pierced them.
9 Occasionally one found its way into the shaft of a pressure elevator.
10 The sunshine fell across the dusty room in a long, quivering shaft .
11 Before Bran had even finished speaking, the shaft was on its way.
12 The shaft is usually made of bamboo, malacc, or recently light steel.
13 Plenty of time for the Chicago Police to get down the shaft .
14 A few rays straggled in through the opening of a deserted shaft .
15 A letter to Caesar was enclosed in the shaft of his javelin.
16 To Achilles death came in a shaft from the bow of Paris.
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