shaft

Meaning

Verb

1. (slang) To fuck over; to cause harm to, especially through deceit or treachery.
2. To equip with a shaft.
3. (slang) To fuck; to have sexual intercourse with.

Noun

1. (obsolete) The entire body of a long weapon, such as an arrow.
2. The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin.
3. Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin.
4. 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.
5. A beam or ray of light.
6. The main axis of a feather.
7. The long narrow body of a lacrosse stick.
8. A vertical or inclined passage sunk into the earth as part of a mine
9. A vertical passage housing a lift or elevator; a liftshaft.
10. A ventilation or heating conduit; an air duct.
11. Any column or pillar, particularly the body of a column between its capital and pedestal.
12. The main cylindrical part of the penis.
13. The chamber of a blast furnace.
14. A relatively small area of precipitation that an onlook can discern from the dry surrounding area.

Synonyms

pole

handle

arrow

rod

stem

well

axle

staff

dart

🎯

axis

bar

spar

quill

pit

stake

spear

mine

thill

scape

shank

helve

ray

dick

shot

beam

spindle

arbor

stalk

stave

stick

cock

tool

barb

calamus

trunk

pecker

peter

putz

cheat

haft

diaphysis

pivot

prick

irradiation

penis

perch

elevator shaft

jockey

duct

stock

rotating shaft

pike

jibe

ray of light

stipe

light beam

chouse

screw

javelin

stack

lance

hilt

slam

dig

chicane

shaft of light

drawbar

mineshaft

gibe

baton

gleam

column

cylinder

mandril

beam of light

mandrel

slip

smoke pipe

smokestack

snooker

spike

spine

stele

sticker

stovepipe

stub

tab

thorn

tine

tip

trace

truncheon

tube

twig

verge

void

walking stick

wand

caudex

chimney stack

chisel out

mine shaft

well hole

acantha

aculeus

ingraft

podetium

scapus

John Thomas

litter shaft

beguile into

beguile out of

cheat into

con into

con out of

one-liner

well casing

furnace stack

pit shaft

mixer shaft

furnace shell

heating tube

coupling pin

shaft axle

spearshaft

liftshaft

abysm

шахта

arm

axes

backbone

bandy

barre

barrier

base

boat hook

bonk

breast

cane

carom

chasm

chimney

chute

club

counterfoil

counterpoise

cozen

crook

cutting

deceive

defraud

diggings

drub

engraft

feather

🪶

ferule

fishbone

fishing rod

fix

foot

🦶

funnel

gap

gorge

graft

gripe

gulf

gull

head

heaver

hold

holder

hole

🕳️

hollow

hub

ingot

leg

🦵

lever

linchpin

mast

member

oar

oil rig

Paul

peak

pedicel

peduncle

peg

pencil

📝

phallus

pikestaff

pillar

pinion

pithead

piton

point

post

prod

prong

prop

quickset

ravine

reed

score

Pronounced as (IPA)

/ʃɑːft/

Etymology

Inherited from Middle English: schaft

Inherited from Old English: sċeaft

Cognate with Dutch: schacht

Cognate with German: Schaft

Cognate with Swedish: skaft

In summary

From Middle English schaft, from Old English sċeaft, from Proto-West Germanic *skaft, from Proto-Germanic *skaftaz. Cognate with Dutch schacht, German German Schaft, Swedish skaft.