shafting

English

Verb

shafting

  1. present participle and gerund 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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