shafting

Pluralshaftings

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of shaft. Use it for treating someone unfairly, or for fitting a tool with a handle or rod.

   The company is shafting its workers by cutting their pay.

   Grandpa spent the winter shafting new arrows for the boys.

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2. 2
   nounslangcountable or uncountable

   When someone tricks you or treats you badly in a way that hurts you.

   We got a real shafting when the shop charged us twice.

   After years of hard work, losing his job felt like a shafting.

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3. 3
   noununcountable

   A set of joined turning rods that pass movement from one part of a machine to another.

   The old mill used shafting and belts to run all its machines from one water wheel.

   A worker oiled the shafting along the ceiling every morning.

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4. 4
   noununcountable

   Shafts taken together as a group, such as long thin sticks or rods.

   The arrow maker kept a bundle of shafting by the fire to dry.

   The golf shop ordered new shafting for its clubs.

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