Usually means: Cylindrical piece for transmitting motion.
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General (27 matching dictionaries)
  1. shaft, the shaft: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. shaft, shaft, the shaft: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shaft: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. shaft: Collins English Dictionary
  5. shaft: Vocabulary.com
  6. Shaft, shaft: Wordnik
  7. shaft, the shaft: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. shaft: Wiktionary
  9. shaft: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. shaft: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. shaft: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. shaft: Dictionary.com
  13. shaft (1), shaft (2): Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. shaft: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  15. SHAFT, Shaft (Bernard Purdie album), Shaft (British band), Shaft (British electronica band), Shaft (Image Comics), Shaft (Isaac Hayes album), Shaft (Marvel Comics), Shaft (Mechanical Engineering), Shaft (New Zealand band), Shaft (TV series), Shaft (civil engineering), Shaft (company), Shaft (disambiguation), Shaft (film series), Shaft (franchise), Shaft (golf), Shaft (mechanical engineering), Shaft (movie), Shaft (novel), Shaft (penis), Shaft (rave band), Shaft (studio), Shaft: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  16. Shaft: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  17. shaft: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  18. shaft: Rhymezone
  19. Shaft: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  20. shaft: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  21. SHAFT: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  22. Shaft: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  23. shaft: Free Dictionary
  24. shaft: Mnemonic Dictionary
  25. shaft: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. shaft: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. SHAFT: The Britannia Lexicon (Middle Ages Glossary)
  3. shaft: Glossary of Medieval Art and Architecture

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shaft (film), shaft: Encyclopedia

Medicine (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dorland's Illustrated Medical Dictionary (No longer online)
  2. online medical dictionary (No longer online)
  3. Shaft (film), shaft: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (3 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shaft: Castle Terms
  2. SHAFT: Acronym Finder
  3. shaft: Idioms

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Bird On! (No longer online)
  2. Shaft: Eric Weisstein's World of Physics

Slang (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shaft (offensive): Racial Slur Database
  2. shaft, shaft: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  3. shaft: English slang and colloquialisms used in the United Kingdom
  4. the shaft: Urban Dictionary

Sports (5 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Canoe Terminology (No longer online)
  2. Hickok Sports Glossaries (No longer online)
  3. CAVE AND KARST TERMINOLOGY (No longer online)
  4. shaft: Golfer's Dictionary
  5. Shaft: Sports Definitions

Tech (7 matching dictionaries)
  1. AUTOMOTIVE TERMS (No longer online)
  2. Glossary of Coal Mining Terms (No longer online)
  3. shaft: Glossary of Medieval Architecture
  4. SHAFT: Mining Terms used in mid 1800's
  5. Lake and Water Word Glossary (No longer online)
  6. Reliance Electric motor terms (No longer online)
  7. SeaTalk Dictionary of English Nautical Language (No longer online)

(Note: See shafted as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (obsolete) The entire body of a long weapon, such as an arrow.
noun:  The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin.
noun:  (by extension) Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin.
noun:  Any long thin object, such as the handle of a tool, one of the poles between which an animal is harnessed to a vehicle, the driveshaft of a motorized vehicle with rear-wheel drive, an axle, etc.
noun:  A beam or ray of light.
noun:  The main axis of a feather.
noun:  (lacrosse) The long narrow body of a lacrosse stick.
noun:  A vertical or inclined passage sunk into the earth as part of a mine
noun:  A vertical passage housing a lift or elevator; a liftshaft.
noun:  A ventilation or heating conduit; an air duct.
noun:  (architecture) Any column or pillar, particularly the body of a column between its capital and pedestal.
noun:  The main cylindrical part of the penis.
noun:  The chamber of a blast furnace.
noun:  (meteorology) A relatively small area of precipitation that an onlook can discern from the dry surrounding area.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To fuck over; to cause harm to, especially through deceit or treachery.
verb:  (transitive) To equip with a shaft.
verb:  (transitive, slang) To fuck; to have sexual intercourse with.

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