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shafting en · NOUN

Meanings

  1. (countable, uncountable) Shafts collectively.
    • Numerous excursions into the field proved to the author that stone axes were unsuitable for gathering shaftings of the proper diameter for arrows. Chopping resulted in long tapering ends […] 1968, Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society, volumes 38-40, page 232:
  2. (countable, uncountable) A system of connected shafts for communicating motion.
  3. (countable, slang, uncountable) The act of deceiving or harming a person.

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shafting en · VERB

Meanings

  1. (form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of shaft
    form of shaft