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Brattice :: Brattice (n.) A wall of separation in a shaft or gallery used for ventilation.

Spear :: Spear (n.) A long, pointed weapon, used in war and hunting, by thrusting or throwing; a weapon with a long shaft and a sharp head or blade; a lance..

Lance :: Lance (n.) A weapon of war, consisting of a long shaft or handle and a steel blade or head; a spear carried by horsemen, and often decorated with a small flag; also, a spear or harpoon used by whalers and fishermen..

Drum :: Drum (n.) A cylinder on a revolving shaft, generally for the purpose of driving several pulleys, by means of belts or straps passing around its periphery; also, the barrel of a hoisting machine, on which the rope or chain is wound..

Stulp :: Stulm (n.) A shaft or gallery to drain a mine.

Pit :: Pit (n.) The shaft of a coal mine; a coal pit.

Cabling :: Cabling (n.) The decoration of a fluted shaft of a column or of a pilaster with reeds, or rounded moldings, which seem to be laid in the hollows of the fluting. These are limited in length to about one third of the height of the shaft..

Bar :: Bar (n.) A broad shaft, or band, or stripe; as, a bar of light; a bar of color..

Use :: Use (v. t.) A stab of iron welded to the side of a forging, as a shaft, near the end, and afterward drawn down, by hammering, so as to lengthen the forging..

Foundershaft :: Foundershaft (n.) The first shaft sunk.

Hanger :: Hanger (n.) A part that suspends a journal box in which shafting runs. See Illust. of Countershaft.

Shaftman :: Shaftman (n.) Alt. of Shaftmen.

Plumule :: Plumule (n.) The aftershaft of a feather. See Illust. under Feather.

Cowl :: Cowl (n.) A cowl-shaped cap, commonly turning with the wind, used to improve the draft of a chimney, ventilating shaft, etc..

Fang :: Fang (v. t.) A niche in the side of an adit or shaft, for an air course..

Bonnet :: Bonnet (n.) A roofing over the cage of a mine, to protect its occupants from objects falling down the shaft..

Backband :: Backband (n.) The band which passes over the back of a horse and holds up the shafts of a carriage.

Riser :: Riser (n.) A shaft excavated from below upward.

Way Shaft :: Way shaft () An interior shaft, usually one connecting two levels..

Sollar :: Sollar (n.) A platform in a shaft, especially one of those between the series of ladders in a shaft..

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