<p><strong>Noun:</strong></p><ul><li>a long pole forming the body of various weapons, as lances, halberds, or arrows.</li><li>something directed or barbed as in sharp attack: shafts of sarcasm.</li><li>a ray or beam: a shaft of sunlight.</li><li>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.</li><li>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.</li><li>a flagpole.</li><li>Architecture: that part of a column or pier between the base and capital.</li><li>any distinct, slender, vertical masonry feature engaged in a wall or pier and usually supporting or feigning to support an arch or vault.</li><li>a monument in the form of a column, obelisk, or the like.</li><li>either of the parallel bars of wood between which the animal drawing a vehicle is hitched.</li><li>any well-like passage or vertical enclosed space, as in a building: an elevator shaft.</li><li>Mining: a vertical or sloping passageway leading to the surface.</li><li>Botany: the trunk of a tree.</li><li>Zoology: the main stem or midrib of a feather.</li><li>Also called leaf.</li><li>Textiles: the harness or warp with reference to the pattern of interlacing threads in weave constructions (usually used in combination): an eight-shaft satin.</li><li>the part of a candelabrum that supports the branches.</li><li>Slang: Vulgar. the penis.</li><li>Slang: harsh, unfair, or treacherous treatment: I feel like he’s giving me the shaft.</li></ul><p><strong>Verb:</strong></p><ul><li>(used with object) to push or propel with a pole: to shaft a boat through a tunnel.</li><li>Slang: to treat in a harsh, unfair, or treacherous manner.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>