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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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grip
English
Pronunciation
- enPR: gr?p, IPA(key): /???p/
- Rhymes: -?p
Etymology 1
From Middle English grippen, from Old English grippan, from a Proto-Germanic *gripjan? (compare Old High German gripfen); compare the related Old English gr?pan, whence English gripe. See also grope, and the related Proto-Germanic *gr?pan?.
Verb
grip (third-person singular simple present grips, present participle gripping, simple past and past participle gripped)
- (transitive) To take hold of, particularly with the hand.
- (transitive) To help or assist, particularly in an emotional sense.
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- By and by fumes of brandy began to fill the air, and climb to where I lay, overcoming the mouldy smell of decayed wood and the dampness of the green walls. It may have been that these fumes mounted to my head, and gave me courage not my own, but so it was that I lost something of the stifling fear that had gripped me, and could listen with more ease to what was going forward
- 1898, J. Meade Falkner, Moonfleet Chapter 4
- (intransitive) To do something with another that makes you happy/gives you relief.
- To trench; to drain.
Synonyms
- (take hold of): clasp, grasp; See also Thesaurus:grasp
- (help or assist): aid, help out, lend a hand; See also Thesaurus:help
- (do something happy with another): hang out
- (trench):
Derived terms
- begrip
- gripping
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English grippe, gripe, an amalgam of Old English gripe (“grasp, hold”) (cognate with German Griff) and Old English gripa (“handful”) (cognate with Swedish grepp).
Noun
grip (countable and uncountable, plural grips)
- A hold or way of holding, particularly with the hand.
- A handle or other place to grip.
- (computing, graphical user interface) A visual component on a window etc. enabling it to be resized and/or moved.
- (film production) A person responsible for handling equipment on the set.
- A channel cut through a grass verge (especially for the purpose of draining water away from the highway).
- (chiefly Southern California slang) A lot of something.
- (chiefly Southern California slang) A long time.
- Archaic spelling of grippe: Influenza, flu.
- 1911, Theodore Dreiser, Jennie Gerhardt, Chapter XXXII:
- It so happened that, during a stretch of inclement weather in the fall, Lester was seized with a mild form of grip. When he felt the first symptoms he thought that his indisposition would be a matter of short duration, and tried to overcome it by taking a hot bath and a liberal dose of quinine. But the infection was stronger than he counted on; by morning he was flat on his back, with a severe fever and a splitting headache.
- 1911, Theodore Dreiser, Jennie Gerhardt, Chapter XXXII:
- (archaic) A small travelling-bag or gripsack.
- An apparatus attached to a car for clutching a traction cable.
- Assistance; help or encouragement. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- A helpful, interesting, admirable, or inspiring person.
- (slang) As much as one can hold in a hand; a handful.
- (figuratively) A tenacious grasp; a holding fast.
- A device for grasping or holding fast to something.
See also
- (a lot of) hella, hecka
Related terms
- come to grips
- get to grips with
- key grip
- get a grip
- gripper
Translations
Etymology 3
From Middle English grip, grippe, gryppe (“a ditch, drain”), from Old English gr?p (“a furrow, burrow”) and gr?pe (“a furrow, ditch, drain”), from Proto-Germanic *gr?piz (“a furrow, groove”). Cognate with Middle Dutch grippe, gruppe (“ditch, drain”), greppe, German Low German Gruppe (“ditch, drain”). Related also to Old English gr?p (“a ditch, drain”). More at groop.
Alternative forms
- gripe
Noun
grip (plural grips)
- (dialectal) A small ditch or trench; a channel to carry off water or other liquid; a drain.
Derived terms
- gripple
Etymology 4
From Middle English gripe, from Old French gripe, from Latin grypus, gryphus.
Noun
grip (plural grips)
- (obsolete) The griffin.
Anagrams
- IGRP, PIRG, prig
Albanian
Etymology
Probably a modern loanword, from German Grippe.
Noun
grip m
- flu, influenza
Catalan
Etymology
Borrowed from French grippe, from Frankish *gr?pan (“to seize”), from Proto-Germanic *gr?pan?.
Pronunciation
- (Balearic, Central, Valencian) IPA(key): /???ip/
Noun
grip f (plural grips)
- flu (influenza)
Further reading
- “grip” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “grip” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
- “grip” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “grip” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
Dutch
Etymology
Borrowed from English grip.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?r?p/
Noun
grip m (plural grippen, diminutive gripje n)
- hold (to ensure control)
Related terms
- greep
- griep
- grijpen
- begrip
Haitian Creole
Etymology
From French grippe (“influenza”).
Noun
grip
- influenza, flu
Icelandic
Noun
grip
- inflection of gripur:
- indefinite accusative singular
- indefinite dative singular
Ladino
Etymology
Borrowed from French grippe (“influenza”).
Noun
grip f (Latin spelling)
- (medicine) influenza, flu
Middle English
Etymology 1
From Old French gripe.
Noun
grip
- Alternative form of gripe (“griffin”)
Etymology 2
From Old English gr?p.
Noun
grip
- Alternative form of grippe
Norwegian Bokmål
Verb
grip
- imperative of gripe
Norwegian Nynorsk
Verb
grip
- present tense of gripa and gripe
- imperative of gripa and gripe
Romansch
Noun
grip m (plural grips)
- rock
Swedish
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?ri?p/
- Rhymes: -i?p
Noun
grip c
- griffin
Declension
Verb
grip
- imperative of gripa.
Turkish
Etymology
Borrowed from French grippe.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??ip/
Noun
grip (definite accusative gripi, plural gripler)
- (pathology) flu, influenza, grippe
Yola
Etymology
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Noun
grip (plural gripès)
- stitch
References
- Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN
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