Air shaft () A passage, usually vertical, for admitting fresh air into a mine or a tunnel. |
Butt shaft () An arrow without a barb, for shooting at butts |
Eccentric (a.) Deviating or departing from the center, or from the line of a circle |
Eccentric (a.) Not having the same center |
Eccentric (a.) Pertaining to an eccentric |
Eccentric (a.) Not coincident as to motive or end. |
Eccentric (a.) Deviating from stated methods, usual practice, or established forms or laws |
Eccentric (n.) A circle not having the same center as another contained in some measure within the first. |
Eccentric (n.) One who, or that which, deviates from regularity |
Eccentric (n.) In the Ptolemaic system, the supposed circular orbit of a planet about the earth, but with the earth not in its center. |
Eccentric (n.) A circle described about the center of an elliptical orbit, with half the major axis for radius. |
Eccentric (n.) A disk or wheel so arranged upon a shaft that the center of the wheel and that of the shaft do not coincide. It is used for operating valves in steam engines, and for other purposes. The motion derived is precisely that of a crank having the same throw. |
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. |
Way shaft () A rock shaft. |
Way shaft () An interior shaft, usually one connecting two levels. |