shaft

Plural: shafts

Noun

• a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer
• an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect
  • "she threw shafts of sarcasm"
• a long rod or pole (especially the handle of an implement or the body of a weapon like a spear or arrow)
• a column of light (as from a beacon)
• the main (mid) section of a long bone
• obscene terms for penis
• a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon
• a vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator)
• (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column
• a long vertical passage sunk into the earth, as for a mine or tunnel
• a revolving rod that transmits power or motion
• the hollow spine of a feather
• The entire body of a long weapon, such as an arrow.
• The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin.
• Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin.
• Any long thin object, such as the handle of a tool.
• One of the poles between which a draught animal is harnessed to a vehicle.
• Any long thin object, such as the handle of a tool.
• A rotating machine element used to transmit power; a driveshaft
• Any long thin object, such as the handle of a tool.
• The long narrow body of a lacrosse stick.
• A beam or ray of light.
• The main axis of a feather.
• A vertical or inclined passage sunk into the earth as part of a mine.
• A vertical passage housing a lift or elevator.
• A ventilation or heating conduit.
• Any column or pillar, particularly the body of a column between its capital and pedestal.
• The main cylindrical part of the penis.
• The chamber of a blast furnace.
• A relatively small area of precipitation that an onlook can discern from the dry surrounding area.
• A component of a loom which holds the heddles and is raised by treadles to create the shed.
• An act of sexual intercourse.

Verb

Verb Forms: shafted, shafting, shafts

• To push or propel with a long pole or rod.
• equip with a shaft
• defeat someone through trickery or deceit
• To fuck over; to cause harm to, especially through deceit or treachery.
• To equip with a shaft.
• To fuck; to have sexual intercourse with.

Examples

• Darn it, my keys fell through the gap and into the elevator shaft.
• He managed to SHAFT his word across the board, landing on a triple letter score.
• Her hand slipped off the javelin's shaft towards the spearpoint and that's why her score was lowered.
• I had no idea that they removed the feathers' shafts to make the pillows softer!
• Isn't that shaft of light from that opening in the cave beautiful?
• Our parrot flew into the air duct and got stuck in the shaft.
• Sarah, if you wear gloves your hands might not slip on your shaft and you can up your game, girl!
• The female labia minora is homologous to the penis shaft skin of males.
• Turns out my roommate was shafting my girlfriend.
• Your boss really shafted you by stealing your idea like that.
• Your grandfather used to work with a crane hauling ore out of the gold mine's shafts.

Synonyms

barb, beam, beam of light, calamus, cheat, chicane, chouse, cock, diaphysis, dick, dig, gibe, irradiation, jibe, jockey, lance, light beam, pecker, peter, prick, putz, quill, ray, ray of light, rotating shaft, scape, screw, shaft of light, shot, slam, spear, tool, Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with", Formal terms, Informal and slang terms, abuse, airduct, ball, bang, bauf, be with, bed, beep, boff, boink, bone, bonk, boom-boom, carriage pole, coit, coitize, counterfeit, deceive, diddle, dig out, dight, dissemble, dissimulate, do, doink, drill, eff, enjoy, expletive deleted, feague, feck, feign, fill, frack, frak, frick, frig, fuck, get into someone's pants, get over on, get up in, give someone one, give someone the time, go in unto, go to bed with, go with, harness, have, have one's way with, have one's wicked way with, hit, hump, jape, jiff, jump, jump someone's bones, knob, knock, knock off, know, know someone in the biblical sense, lay, lie by, lie with, liftshaft, love, love up, make, mineshaft, mount, nail, occupy, overreach, penetrate, plough, plug, poke, pole, pork, pound, prig, pump, put on, rachis, ream, rock, roger, root, run through, rut, sard, schlong, season, seduce, see to, service, shaft, shag, sham, shelve, slay, sleep with, slip it to, smash, smush, spoof, stale, stallionize, swive, take, tap, trick, tup, wap

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