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layshaft

noun

Etymology

From lay + shaft.

  1. inherited from *skaftaz✻
  2. inherited from *skaft✻
  3. inherited from sċeaft
  4. inherited from schaft
  5. compounded as layshaft — “lay + shaft”

Definitions

  1. A subsidiary transmission shaft.

The neighborhood

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