Shaftの例文や意味・使い方に関するQ&A

A: It’s usually a long and narrow part of a club, tool, weapon, or any cylindrical object. It can also be used to reference a mans genitals

A: The soil is hard and not loose like sand. Once he had the point of the shovel in some dirt. He leaned down on the shovels handle. That caused the blade of the shovel to lift the dirt up or break/pry it loose.

A: It’s the sun rays that come through the clouds

A: To give him no support (on his campaign)

A: Examples:

I gripped the shaft of the shovel and yanked it out of the ground.

The shaft of the hammer was loose, so I bought a new one.

The new shaft of the tool was made with rubber on top, so that it could be gripped more easily.

A: The air shaft needs to be cleaned.

The car’s exhaust shaft fell off

The elevator rides along in the shaft.



Shaft is not a word commonly used in daily conversation.

A: He fell down the mine shaft.

He gave me the shaft.

The drive shaft fell out of my car.

A: A shaft is a long rod or a shape of a long rod
Light is what your eyes see
A shaft of light is when light is in a long slender ray
See enclosed picture, shaft, light and shaft of light

A:
In American slang, to get the shaft is to get screwed/ taken advantage of.
I’m getting the shaft by my company because they got rid of my pension.
To shag is British slang for sex.
To bop someone is maybe an old fashioned term for sex. Not widely used.

A: Shaft
= a long, narrow handle
= a long, narrow tunnel

Examples:
The workers made their way down the mine shaft.

The carpenter gripped hammer’s shaft tightly.


Spindle
= a rod/pin that acts as a revolving axis or as an axis for things to revolve around

Examples:
Sleeping Beauty pricked her finger on the spindle of a spinning wheel. (The needle that the wool wraps around)

The carnival worker uses a rod of paper to act as a spindle to catch the cotton candy.

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