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Definition of shafter in English: shafternoun ˈʃɑːftə Australian, NZ historical A bullock used to pull a cart. the pole rose and, despite their great weight, hoisted the shafters completely off the ground Example sentencesExamples - He yoked them to the waggon, the two shafters first.
- The team is a shafter and three pair of yoke oxen.
- It had started to snow and I could not see past the shafters.
- He had often noticed that the shafters had very short back chains.
- The light dray was powered by a single shafter.
- I was astonished to see our dray tipped up, with the two shafters hanging by the bows from the pole.
- He would lend us his shafter to bring up our load.
- Although our horses were perfectly able to convey our effects, our neighbour had a very stout shafter.
- The shafter threw his load off four times.
- He had yoked the yoke-bullocks and harnessed the shafter.
Origin Early 19th century: from shaft in the sense 'either of a pair of poles that a draught animal is harnessed to'. |