shafting

English

Verb

shafting

  1. present participle of shaft

Noun

shafting (countable and uncountable, plural shaftings)

  1. Shafts collectively.
    • 1968, Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society (volumes 38-40, page 232)
      Numerous excursions into the field proved to the author that stone axes were unsuitable for gathering shaftings of the proper diameter for arrows. Chopping resulted in long tapering ends […]
  2. (engineering) A system of connected shafts for communicating motion.
  3. (slang) The act of deceiving or harming a person.

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