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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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quarry
English
Alternative forms
- currie, curry (obsolete)
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /?kw??i/
- (General American) IPA(key): /?k(w)??i/
- Rhymes: -??i
- Hyphenation: quar?ry
Etymology 1
From Middle English quarere, from Medieval Latin quarreria (1266), literally a “place where stones are squared”, from Old French quarrière (compare modern French carrière), from Vulgar Latin *quadraria, from Latin quadr? (“I square”), itself from quadra (“a square”), from quattuor (“four”), ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *k?etwóres (“four”).
Noun
quarry (plural quarries)
- (mining) A site for mining stone, limestone, or slate.
Synonyms
- delf
Derived terms
Translations
Descendants
- Irish: cairéal m
- Welsh: chwarel m
Verb
quarry (third-person singular simple present quarries, present participle quarrying, simple past and past participle quarried)
- (transitive) To obtain (or mine) stone by extraction from a quarry.
- (figuratively, transitive) To extract or slowly obtain by long, tedious searching.
Synonyms
- (obtain stone by extraction): mine
- (extract by searching): dig, dig up, unearth
Derived terms
- quarrying (noun)
Translations
Etymology 2
From Middle English quyrrey, querre, curee, quirre, from Anglo-Norman quirreie, from Old French cuiriee (“entrails of deer placed on the hide and given to dogs of the chase as a reward”) (influenced by cuir (“skin (of an animal)”), from Latin corium (“a hide”)), from coree (“entrails, viscera”), from Vulgar Latin corata (“entrails”), from Latin cor (“heart”).
Noun
quarry (countable and uncountable, plural quarries)
- (uncountable, obsolete) A part of the entrails of a hunted animal, given to the hounds as a reward.
- (uncountable) An animal, often a bird or mammal, which is hunted.
- (countable) An object of search or pursuit.
Synonyms
- mark
- prey
- target
Translations
Verb
quarry (third-person singular simple present quarries, present participle quarrying, simple past and past participle quarried)
- To secure prey; to prey, as a vulture or harpy.
Etymology 3
Alteration of quarrel (“diamond-shaped piece of coloured glass forming part of a stained glass window; square tile”).
Noun
quarry (plural quarries)
- A diamond-shaped tile or pane, often of glass or stone.
Derived terms
- quarry light
- quarry tile
References
- Douglas Harper (2001–2021) , “quarry”, in Online Etymology Dictionary
Further reading
- quarry on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- quarry (disambiguation) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
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