1. shaft

noun. ['ˈʃæft'] an aggressive remark directed at a person like a missile and intended to have a telling effect.

Rhymes with Shaft

• redraft
• staffed
• kraft
• krafft
• graft
• draught
• draft
• craft
• taft
• raft
• laughed
• daft
• calfed

How do you pronounce shaft?

Pronounce shaft as ʃæft.

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Sentences with shaft

1. Noun, singular or mass
Place a comb in and behind the hair at about halfway down the hair shaft.

Quotes about shaft

1. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.
- J.R.R. Tolkien, The Return of the King

2. From Got Luck --"Tell me why we’re doing this again?” Erin asked.“Remember what we learned from Return of the Jedi?”“No. What?”“We learned you can be the most powerful sorcerer in the galaxy but if someone grabs you and throws you down an energy shaft, you die like everybody else.
- Michael Darling

2. shaft

noun. ['ˈʃæft'] a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer.

3. shaft

noun. ['ˈʃæft'] a long rod or pole (especially the handle of an implement or the body of a weapon like a spear or arrow).

4. shaft

noun. ['ˈʃæft'] the hollow spine of a feather.

5. shaft

noun. ['ˈʃæft'] a long pointed rod used as a tool or weapon.

6. shaft

noun. ['ˈʃæft'] (architecture) upright consisting of the vertical part of a column.

7. shaft

noun. ['ˈʃæft'] a vertical passageway through a building (as for an elevator).

8. shaft

noun. ['ˈʃæft'] a column of light (as from a beacon).

9. shaft

noun. ['ˈʃæft'] a revolving rod that transmits power or motion.

10. shaft

noun. ['ˈʃæft'] a long vertical passage sunk into the earth, as for a mine or tunnel.