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shaft
English
Etymology
From Middle English schaft, from Old English s?eaft, from Proto-Germanic *skaftaz. Cognate with Dutch schacht, German German Schaft, Swedish skaft.
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /???ft/
- (US) IPA(key): /?æft/
- Rhymes: -??ft
Noun
shaft (plural shafts)
- (obsolete) The entire body of a long weapon, such as an arrow.
- c. 1343-1400,, Geoffrey Chaucer:
- His sleep, his meat, his drink, is him bereft, / That lean he wax, and dry as is a shaft.
- c. 1515-1568,, Roger Ascham:
- A shaft hath three principal parts, the stele, the feathers, and the head.
- c. 1343-1400,, Geoffrey Chaucer:
- The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin.
- (by extension) Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin.
- c. 1608-1674,, John Milton:
- And the thunder, / Winged with red lightning and impetuous rage, / Perhaps hath spent his shafts.
- c. 1752-1821,, Vicesimus Knox:
- Some kinds of literary pursuits […] have been attacked with all the shafts of ridicule.
- c. 1608-1674,, John Milton:
- Any long thin object, such as the handle of a tool, one of the poles between which an animal is harnessed to a vehicle, the driveshaft of a motorized vehicle with rear-wheel drive, an axle, etc.
- A beam or ray of light.
- 1912, Willa Cather, The Bohemian Girl:
- They were a fine company of old women, and a Dutch painter would have loved to find them there together, where the sun made bright patches on the floor and sent long, quivering shafts of gold through the dusky shade up among the rafters.
- 1912, Willa Cather, The Bohemian Girl:
- The main axis of a feather.
- (lacrosse) The long narrow body of a lacrosse stick.
- A vertical or inclined passage sunk into the earth as part of a mine
- A vertical passage housing a lift or elevator; a liftshaft.
- A ventilation or heating conduit; an air duct.
- (architecture) Any column or pillar, particularly the body of a column between its capital and pedestal.
- c. 1803-1882,, Ralph Waldo Emerson:
- Bid time and nature gently spare / The shaft we raise to thee.
- c. 1803-1882,, Ralph Waldo Emerson:
- The main cylindrical part of the penis.
- The chamber of a blast furnace.
Usage notes
In Early Modern English, the shaft referred to the entire body of a long weapon, such that an arrow's "shaft" was composed of its "tip", "stale" or "steal", and "fletching". Palsgrave (circa 1530) glossed the French j[']empenne as "I fether a shafte, I put fethers upon a steale". Over time, the word came to be used in place of the former "stale" and lost its original meaning.
Synonyms
- stale, stail, steal, stele, steel (arrows, spears)
- (main axis of a feather): rachis
- mineshaft (vertical underground passage)
Derived terms
Translations
Verb
shaft (third-person singular simple present shafts, present participle shafting, simple past and past participle shafted)
- (transitive, slang) To fuck over; to cause harm to, especially through deceit or treachery.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:deceive
- (transitive) To equip with a shaft.
- (transitive, slang) To fuck; to have sexual intercourse with.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:copulate with
- 2018 Christian Cooke as Mickey Argyle, "Episode 2", Ordeal by Innocence (written by Sarah Phelps) 23 minutes
- Well at least I can get it up. No wonder Mary's going out of her head. Stuck with you sponging off her and not even a decent shafting for her trouble.
Translations
Anagrams
- Faths, hafts
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old English s?eaft (“shaft”).
Noun
shaft
- Alternative form of schaft (“shaft”)
Etymology 2
From Old English s?eaft (“creation”).
Noun
shaft
- Alternative form of schaft (“creation”)
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bague
English
Etymology
Borrowed from French bague (“ring”). Doublet of bee.
Noun
bague (plural bagues)
- (architecture) The annular moulding or group of mouldings dividing a long shaft or clustered column into two or more parts.
French
Etymology
From Middle French bague, possibly a borrowing from Middle Dutch bage, bagge (“ring”), of obscure origin. Compare Middle Low German bâge, bôge (“curve, arch,ring”), Old French wage (“ring”). Compare also Old French bage, Medieval Latin baga (“ring”), from Proto-Germanic *baugaz (“ring, collar, bracelet”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ba?/
Noun
bague f (plural bagues)
- ring
Further reading
- “bague” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
Anagrams
- bauge
Norman
Etymology
Of Germanic origins, from Proto-Germanic *baugaz.
Pronunciation
Noun
bague f (plural bagues)
- (Jersey) ring (jewelry)
- (Jersey) haw (fruit)
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