Air shaft
() A passage, usually vertical, for admitting fresh air into a mine or a tunnel. |
Armature
(n.) Armor |
Armature
(n.) A piece of soft iron used to connect the two poles of a magnet, or electro-magnet, in order to complete the circuit, or to receive and apply the magnetic force. In the ordinary horseshoe magnet, it serves to prevent the dissipation of the magnetic force. |
Armature
(n.) Iron bars or framing employed for the consolidation of a building, as in sustaining slender columns, holding up canopies, etc. |
Butt shaft
() An arrow without a barb, for shooting at butts |
Rock shaft
() A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, -- usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines |
Shaft
(n.) The slender, smooth stem of an arrow |
Shaft
(n.) The long handle of a spear or similar weapon |
Shaft
(n.) That which resembles in some degree the stem or handle of an arrow or a spear |
Shaft
(n.) The trunk, stem, or stalk of a plant. |
Shaft
(n.) The stem or midrib of a feather. |
Shaft
(n.) The pole, or tongue, of a vehicle |
Shaft
(n.) The part of a candlestick which supports its branches. |
Shaft
(n.) The handle or helve of certain tools, instruments, etc., as a hammer, a whip, etc. |
Shaft
(n.) A pole, especially a Maypole. |
Shaft
(n.) The body of a column |
Shaft
(n.) A column, an obelisk, or other spire-shaped or columnar monument. |
Shaft
(n.) A rod at the end of a heddle. |
Shaft
(n.) 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 |
Shaft
(n.) A humming bird (Thaumastura cora) having two of the tail feathers next to the middle ones very long in the male |
Shaft
(n.) A well-like excavation in the earth, perpendicular or nearly so, made for reaching and raising ore, for raising water, etc. |
Shaft
(n.) A long passage for the admission or outlet of air |
Shaft
(n.) The chamber of a blast furnace. |
Spindle
(n.) The long, round, slender rod or pin in spinning wheels by which the thread is twisted, and on which, when twisted, it is wound |
Spindle
(n.) A slender rod or pin on which anything turns |
Spindle
(n.) The shaft, mandrel, or arbor, in a machine tool, as a lathe or drilling machine, etc., which causes the work to revolve, or carries a tool or center, etc. |
Spindle
(n.) The vertical rod on which the runner of a grinding mill turns. |
Spindle
(n.) A shaft or pipe on which a core of sand is formed. |
Spindle
(n.) The fusee of a watch. |
Spindle
(n.) A long and slender stalk resembling a spindle. |
Spindle
(n.) A yarn measure containing, in cotton yarn, 15,120 yards |
Spindle
(n.) A solid generated by the revolution of a curved line about its base or double ordinate or chord. |
Spindle
(n.) Any marine univalve shell of the genus Rostellaria |
Spindle
(n.) Any marine gastropod of the genus Fusus. |
Spindle
(v. i.) To shoot or grow into a long, slender stalk or body |
Spindle-legged
(a.) Having long, slender legs. |
Spindle-shanked
(a.) Having long, slender legs. |
Spindle-shaped
(a.) Having the shape of a spindle. |
Spindle-shaped
(a.) Thickest in the middle, and tapering to both ends |
Way shaft
() A rock shaft. |
Way shaft
() An interior shaft, usually one connecting two levels. |
chicken louse
shaft louse
Menopon palladum
Menopon gallinae | a louse parasitic on poultry |
forest goat
spindle horn
Pseudoryx nghetinhensis | cow-like creature with the glossy coat of a horse and the agility of a goat and the long horns of an antelope, characterized as a cow that lives the life of a goat |
| quill calamus shaft | the hollow spine of a feather |
air shaft
air well | a shaft for ventilation |
| armature | coil in which voltage is induced by motion through a magnetic field |
| butt shaft | a blunt arrow without a barb, an arrow used for target practice |
| elevator shaft | a vertical shaft in a building to permit the passage of an elevator from floor to floor |
| main rotor | rotor consisting of large rotating airfoils on a singleotor helicopter that produce the lift to support the helicopter in the air |
rotating shaft
shaft | a revolving rod that transmits power or motion |
| rotor | rotating mechanism consisting of an assembly of rotating airfoils, there are horizontal rotors on a helicopter or compressor rotors in a jet engine |
| rotor rotor coil | the rotating armature of a motor or generator |
| rotor | the revolving bar of a distributor |
rotor blade
rotary wing | the long airfoil that rotates to provide the lift that supports a helicopter in the air |
rotor head
rotor shaft | the axis around which the major rotor of a helicopter turns |
| shaft | a long rod or pole (especially the handle of an implement or the body of a weapon like a spear or arrow) |
| shaft | a long vertical passage sunk into the earth, as for a mine or tunnel |
| shaft scape | (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column |
| shaft | a vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator) |
spear
lance
shaft | a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon |
| spike spindle | any holding device consisting of a rigid, sharp-pointed object, the spike pierced the receipts and held them in order |
| spindle | a stick or pin used to twist the yarn in spinning |
spindle mandrel
mandril
arbor | any of various rotating shafts that serve as axes for larger rotating parts |
| spindle | a piece of wood that has been turned on a lathe, used as a baluster, chair leg, etc. |
tail rotor
anti-torque rotor | rotor consisting of a rotating airfoil on the tail of a singleotor helicopter, keeps the helicopter from spinning in the direction opposite to the rotation of the main rotor |
| transmission shaft | rotating shaft that transmits rotary motion from the engine to the differential |
| ventilation shaft | a shaft in a building, serves as an air passage for ventilation |
cock
prick
dick
shaft pecker
peter
tool
putz | obscene terms for penis |
diaphysis
shaft | the main (mid) section of a long bone |
| spindle | (biology) tiny fibers that are seen in cell division, the fibers radiate from two poles and meet at the equator in the middle, chromosomes are distributed by spindles in mitosis and meiosis |
shot
shaft slam
dig
barb
jibe
gibe | 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, she takes a dig at me every chance she gets |
| shaft | a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer |
beam
beam of light
light beam
ray
ray of light
shaft
shaft of light
irradiation | a column of light (as from a beacon) |
Celastraceae
family Celastraceae
spindle-tree family
staff-tree family | trees and shrubs and woody vines usually having brightolored fruits |
spindle tree
spindleberry
spindleberry tree | any shrubby trees or woody vines of the genus Euonymus having showy usually reddish berries |
common spindle tree
Euonymus europaeus | small erect deciduous shrub having tough white wood and cathartic bark and fruit |
winged spindle tree
Euonymous alatus | bushy deciduous shrub with branches having thin wide corky longitudinal wings, brilliant red in autumn, northeastern Asia to central China |
cheat
chouse
shaft
screw
chicane
jockey | defeat someone through trickery or deceit |
| shaft | equip with a shaft |
spindle-legged
spindle-shanked | having long slender legs |
fusiform
spindle-shaped
cigar-shaped | tapering at each end |