Definizione monolingua

shaft

shaft (third-person singular simple present shafts, present participle shafting, simple past and past participle shafted)

1. (transitive) to equip something with a shaft
2. (transitive, slang) To have sexual intercourse with someone
3. (transitive, slang) To cause someone harm.

   He got shafted when his boss took credit for what he had done.

shaft (plural shafts)

1. The long narrow body of a spear or arrow

   Her hand slipped off the javelins shaft towards the spearpoint and thats why her score was lowered, Sam.

2. A beam or ray of light

   Isnt that shaft of light from that opening in the cave beautiful?

3. Any long thin object, such as the handle of a tool, one of the poles between which an animal is harnessed to a vehicle, or the driveshaft of a motorized vehicle with rear-wheel drive.

   Dude, the baseball bats shaft got broken by the amazing pitch!

4. The main axis of a feather

   I had no idea that they removed the feathers shafts to make the pillows softer!

5. (lacrosse) The long narrow body of a lacrosse stick

   Sarah, if you wear gloves your hands might not slip on your shaft and you can up your game, girl!

6. A long narrow passage sunk into the earth, for mining etc; a mineshaft.

   Your grandfather used to work with a crane hauling ore out of the gold mines shafts.

7. A vertical or near-vertical cave passage.
8. A vertical passage housing a lift or elevator; a liftshaft.

   Darn it, my keys fell through the gap and into the elevator shaft.

9. A ventilation or heating conduit; an air duct.

   Our parrot flew into the air duct and got stuck in the shaft.

10. A malicious act, as in “to give someone the shaft”

    That guy at work gave me the shaft, he ratted me out to the boss for being late!

11. The main narrow part of the penis
12. axle
13. drive shaft

Definizione dizionario shaft

	pozzo
	long narrow passage sunk into the earth

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stanga

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Altri significati:

ventilation or heating conduit

A malicious act, as in “to give someone the shaft”

long narrow body of spear or arrow

A ventilation or heating conduit; an air duct.

(lacrosse) The long narrow body of a lacrosse stick

beam or ray of light

The main axis of a feather

A vertical passage housing a lift or elevator; a liftshaft.

(transitive) to equip something with a shaft

The main narrow part of the penis

axle

drive shaft

A beam or ray of light

(transitive, slang) To have sexual intercourse with someone

Any long thin object, such as the handle of a tool, one of the poles between which an animal is harnessed to a vehicle, or the driveshaft of a motorized vehicle with rear-wheel drive.

A vertical or near-vertical cave passage.

(arrow) shaft

The long narrow body of a spear or arrow

A long narrow passage sunk into the earth, for mining etc; a mineshaft.

the shaft of the penis

any long, thin object

(transitive, slang) To engage in a malicious act; to rip off, as in "He got shafted."

vertical passage housing a lift

main axis of a feather