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mainshaft

noun

Etymology

From main + shaft.

  1. inherited from *skaftaz✻
  2. inherited from *skaft✻
  3. inherited from sċeaft
  4. inherited from schaft
  5. formed as mainshaft — “main + shaft”

Definitions

  1. the principal shaft of a motor

  2. The primary shaft of an arrow into which the foreshaft containing the arrowhead is…

    The primary shaft of an arrow into which the foreshaft containing the arrowhead is inserted.

The neighborhood

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