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• SHAFT
• SHAFT (O. Eng., sceaft, from scafan, to shave; the word is common to Teutonic languages)

SHAFT (O. Eng., sceaft, from scafan, to shave; the word is See also:

• COMMON

common to See also:

• TEUTONIC
• TEUTONIC (GERMANIC) LANGUAGES

Teutonic See also:

• LANGUAGES

languages)  , any slender, smoothed See also:

• ROD (O.E. rodd, probably related to Norw. rudda, stick, rodda, stake)
• ROD, EDOUARD (1857-1910)

rod or stick, and so first used of the See also:

• BODY

body of an arrow or See also:

• SPEAR (O. Eng. spere, O. H. Ger. sper, mod. Ger. speer, &c., cf. Lat. sparrs; probably related to " spar, " a beam)

spear to which the See also:

• HEAD (in 0. Eng. heafad; the word is common to Teutonic languages; cf. Dutch hoofd, Ger. Haupt, generally taken to be in origin connected with Lat. caput, Gr. KerbOvi7)
• HEAD, SIR EDMUND WALKER, BART
• HEAD, SIR FRANCIS BOND, BART

head is attached; hence the word is applied to the handle of a See also:

• TOOL (0. Eng. tdl, generally referred to a root seen in the Goth. taujan, to make, or in the English word " taw," to work or dress leather)

tool, and to the pair of bars between which a See also:

• HORSE (a word common to Teutonic languages in such forms as hors, hros, ros; cf. the Ger. ross)

horse is harnessed to a vehicle, and in machinery to connecting bars or rods conveying See also:

• POWER [WILLIAM GRATTAN] TYRONE (1797-1841)

power from one See also:

• PART

part of a See also:

• MACHINE
• MACHINE (through Fr. from Lat. form machina of Gr. µnxavil)

machine to another . It is also applied to an opening sunk in the ground for See also:

• MINING

mining or other purposes (see See also:

• SHAFT
• SHAFT (O. Eng., sceaft, from scafan, to shave; the word is common to Teutonic languages)

SHAFT-SINKING) . This use is probably due to the use of Ger . Schacht, a variant of schaft . In See also:

• ARCHITECTURE (Lat. architectura, from the Gr. ap)(LTEKrwv, a master-builder)

architecture the See also:

• TERM

term " shaft " is applied to the body of a See also:

• COLUMN (Lat. columna)

column between the See also:

• CAPITAL (i.e. capital stock or fund)
• CAPITAL (Lat. caput, head)

capital and the See also:

• BASE

base . In Romanesque See also:

• WORK

work shafts are occasionally octagonal, and are sometimes ornamented with the zigzag or See also:

• CHEVRON (Fr. from chevre, a goat)

chevron, or fluted vertically or in spirals; the most beautiful examples of the latter being found in the cloisters of St See also:

• JOHN
• JOHN (1167–1216)
• JOHN (1290-c. 1320)
• JOHN (1296-1346)
• JOHN (1371–1419)
• JOHN (1468-1532)
• JOHN (1801-1873)
• JOHN (Heb. llni')
• JOHN (ZAPOLYA) (1487-1540)
• JOHN, 4TH MARQUESS OF TWEEDDALE (c. 1695-1762)
• JOHN, DON (1545-1578)
• JOHN, DON (1629–1679)
• JOHN, GOSPEL OF ST
• JOHN, or HAYS (1513–1571)
• JOHN, THE APOSTLE
• JOHN, THE EPISTLES OF

John Lateran and at St See also:

• PAUL
• PAUL (PAULUS)

Paul's outside the walls at See also:

• ROME
• ROME (Roma)

Rome, where they are enriched with mosaics . Perhaps the earliest ornamented shafts are those of the See also:

• PARTHIAN

Parthian See also:

• PALACE (Lat. Palatium, the name given by Augustus to his residence on the Palatine Hill)

Palace, now the See also:

• MOSQUE (through Fr. mosquie; Span. mezquila, from Arab. masjid, sajada, to adore)

mosque, at Diarbekr in See also:

• MESOPOTAMIA (Mevoaora)

Mesopotamia .