| 释义 |
shaft /shäft/ noun- Anything long and straight
- A stem
- An arrow
- A missile (esp figurative)
- The main, upright, straight, or cylindrical part of anything
- The part of a cross below the arms
- The part of a column between the base and the capital
- The rachis of a feather
- The thill of a carriage on either side of the horse
- A straight handle
- A pole
- A ray or beam of light
- A rotating rod that transmits motion
- A well-like excavation or passage
- The penis (vulgar sl)
- A woman's body (purely as a sexual object) (US vulgar sl)
transitive verb- To have sexual intercourse with (a woman) (vulgar sl)
- To dupe, swindle, treat unfairly (slang)
ORIGIN: OE sceaft; perh partly Ger Schacht pit-shaft shaftˈed adjective shaftˈer noun (also shaftˈ-horse) a horse harnessed between shafts shaftˈing noun - The action of the verb in either sense
- A system of shafts
shaftˈless adjective make a shaft or a bolt of it To venture and take what comes of it, the shaft and the bolt being the arrows of the longbow and the crossbow respectively |