shaft

(obsolete)The entire body of a long weapon, such as an arrow.

The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin.

Her hand slipped off the javelin's shaft towards the spearpoint and that's why her score was lowered.

Đồng nghĩa: stale

(broadly)(by extension) Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin.

Any long thin object, such as the handle of a tool.

(literary)A beam or ray of light.

Isn't that shaft of light from that opening in the cave beautiful?

The main axis of a feather.

I had no idea that they removed the feathers' shafts to make the pillows softer!

Đồng nghĩa: rachis

A vertical or inclined passage sunk into the earth as part of a mine.

Your grandfather used to work with a crane hauling ore out of the gold mine's shafts.

Đồng nghĩa: mineshaft

A vertical passage housing a lift or elevator.

Darn it, my keys fell through the gap and into the elevator shaft.

Đồng nghĩa: liftshaft

A ventilation or heating conduit.

Our parrot flew into the air duct and got stuck in the shaft.

Đồng nghĩa: airduct

(architecture) Any column or pillar, particularly the body of a column between its capital and pedestal.

(anatomy) The main cylindrical part of the penis.

The female labia minora is homologous to the penis shaft skin of males.

The chamber of a blast furnace.

(meteorology) A relatively small area of precipitation that an onlook can discern from the dry surrounding area.

(weaving) A component of a loom which holds the heddles and is raised by treadles to create the shed.

Đồng nghĩa: harness

(slang)An act of sexual intercourse.

I sat on the sofa, got up, changed channels and doubted there'd be time to have a quick shaft and feign an orgasm today.

(slang, transitive)To fuck over; to cause harm to, especially through deceit or treachery.

Your boss really shafted you by stealing your idea like that.

Đồng nghĩa: abuse, beglammer, counterfeit, deceive, dissemble, dissimulate, feign, jiff, lead astray, overreach, put on, spoof, sham, trick

(transitive)To equip with a shaft.

(slang, transitive)To fuck; to have sexual intercourse with.

Turns out my roommate was shafting my girlfriend.

Đồng nghĩa: Formal terms, bed, coit, coitize, dight, enjoy, feague, go in unto, go to bed with, have, know, lie by, lie with, love, mount, occupy, penetrate, season, seduce, sleep with, take, Any of Thesaurus:copulate + "with", Informal and slang terms, ball, bang, bauf, beep, be with, bone, boff, boink, bonk, boom-boom, dick, diddle, dig out, do, doink, drill, eff, expletive deleted, fill, frack, frak, frick, frig, fuck, get into someone's pants, get over on, get up in, give someone one, give someone the time, go with, have one's way with, have one's wicked way with, hit, hump, jape, jump, jump someone's bones, knob, knock, knock off, know someone in the biblical sense, lay, love up, make, nail, plough, plug, poke, pork, pound, prig, pump, ravage, ream, rock, roger, root, run through, rut, sard, schlong, screw, see to, service, shaft, shag, shelve, slay, slip it to, smash, smush, stallionize, swive, tap, tup, wap