[{"Bold_text": "noun", "List Items": ["a long pole forming the body of various weapons, as lances, halberds, or arrows.", "something directed or barbed as in sharp attack:shafts of sarcasm.", "a ray or beam:a shaft of sunlight.", "a long, comparatively straight handle serving as an important or balancing part of an implement or device, as of a hammer, ax, golf club, or other implement.", "Machinery.a rotating or oscillating round, straight bar for transmitting motion and torque, usually supported on bearings and carrying gears, wheels, or the like, as a propeller shaft on a ship, or a drive shaft of an engine.", "a flagpole.", "Architecture.that part of a column or pier between the base and capital.any distinct, slender, vertical masonry feature engaged in a wall or pier and usually supporting or feigning to support an arch or vault.", "that part of a column or pier between the base and capital.", "any distinct, slender, vertical masonry feature engaged in a wall or pier and usually supporting or feigning to support an arch or vault.", "a monument in the form of a column, obelisk, or the like.", "either of the parallel bars of wood between which the animal drawing a vehicle is hitched.", "any well-like passage or vertical enclosed space, as in a building:an elevator shaft.", "Mining.a vertical or sloping passageway leading to the surface.", "Botany.the trunk of a tree.", "Zoology.the main stem or midrib of a feather.", "Also called leaf .Textiles.the harness or warp with reference to the pattern of interlacing threads in weave constructions (usually used in combination):an eight-shaft satin.", "the part of a candelabrum that supports the branches.", "Slang: Vulgar.the penis.", "Slang:harsh, unfair, or treacherous treatment:I feel like he’s giving me the shaft."]}, {"Bold_text": "verb (used with object)", "List Items": ["to push or propel with a pole:to shaft a boat through a tunnel.", "Slang.to treat in a harsh, unfair, or treacherous manner."]}]