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Shafting   Listen
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Shafting  n.  (Mach.) Shafts, collectivelly; a system of connected shafts for communicating motion.






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"Shafting" Quotes from Famous Books



... powerful impulse to run a shaft in a certain direction he would so act, no matter if his reason declared dead against it. The hidden and uncontrollable processes of his mind had given him the secret of "The Witch's" gold, had led him right in his shafting and in his selection of friends and assistants—and had made him a millionaire at thirty-seven years of age. He was prone to over-value the intuitional side of his nature, probably—an error ...
— The Spirit of Sweetwater • Hamlin Garland

... shafting has 75 per cent. greater strength, a finer finish, and is truer to gauge, than any other in use renders it undoubtedly the most economical. We are also the sole manufacturers of the CELEBRATED COLLINS' PAT. COUPLING, and furnish Pulleys, ...
— Scientific American, Volume 40, No. 13, March 29, 1879 • Various



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