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A shaft or gallery to drain a mine. [Local, Eng.] Bailey.

ory motion. It consists of a toothed wheel (called the sun wheel), firmly secured to the shaft it is desired to drive, and another wheel (called the planet wheel) secured to the end of a connecting rod. By the motion of the connecting rod, the planet wheel is made to circulate round the central wheel on the shaft, comm…

f the work. Moxon. Swash plate (Mach.), a revolving circular plate, set obliquely on its shaft, and acting as a cam to give a reciprocating motion to a rod in a direction parallel to the shaft.

An instrument for showing at any moment the speed of a revolving shaft, consisting of a delicate revolving conical pendulum which is driven by the shaft, and the action of which by change of speed moves a pointer which indicates the speed on a graduated dial.

The lighter parts of grain separated from the seed threshing and winnowing; chaff.

c. In the transmitter the motions of the pencil are communicated by levers to two rotary shafts, by which variations in current are produced in two separate circuits. In the receiver these variations are utilized by electromagnetic devices and levers to move a pen as the pencil moves. --Tel`au*tog"ra*phist (#), n.…

to influence the will of the gods by means of purification and other sacramental rites. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.

two long pieces of wood, extending before a vehicle, between which a horse is hitched; a shaft.

The horse which goes between the thills, or shafts, and supports them; also, the last horse in a team; -- called also thill horse.

grooved circumference so as to fit within an eye-spice, or the like, and protect it from chafing.

, thrift; characterized by economy and good menegement of property; sparing; frugal. Her chaffer was so thrifty and so new. Chaucer. I am glad he hath so much youth and vigor left, of which he hath not been thrifty. Swift.

e by a pointed instrument; to bore; to transfix; to drill. [Obs.] He pierced through his chafed chest With thrilling point of deadly iron brand. Spenser.

rew Steamers), a bearing arranged to receive the thrust or endwise pressure of the screw shaft. -- Thrust plane (Geol.), the surface along which dislocation has taken place in the case of a reversed fault.

The chiff-chaff. [Prov. Eng.]

A shaft of lightning; a brilliant stream of electricity passing from one part of the heavens to another, or from the clouds to the earth.

r, used in iron works, which is lifted or tilted by projections or wipers on a revolving shaft; a trip hammer.

The journal, or pivot, at the lower end of a revolving shaft or spindle, which rests in a step.

An instrument, usually of metal, consisting of two parts, or long shafts, jointed together at or near one end, or united by an elastic bow, used for handling things, especially hot coals or metals; -- often called a pair of tongs.

An instrument for determining the torque on a shaft, and hence the horse power of an engine, esp. of a marine engine of high power, by measuring the amount of twist of a given length of the shaft. Called also torsimeter, torsiometer, torsometer.

The shaft of a cart. [Prov. Eng.] De Quincey.