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A rock shaft.

t. This accident, as I call it, of Athens being situated some miles from the sea. J. P. Mahaffy.

Having the nature of chaff; chaffy.

who look for the proximate personal coming of Christ; -- called also Second Adventists. Schaff-Herzog Encyc.

, an instrument for measuring angles, esp. for ascertaining the dip of strata. -- Angle shaft (Arch.), an enriched angle bead, often having a capital or base, or both. -- Curvilineal angle, one formed by two curved lines. -- External angles, angles formed by the sides of any right-lined figure, when the sides are pr…

The small hollow curvature given to the top or bottom of the shaft of a column where it expands to meet the edge of the fillet; -- called also the scape. Parker.

A crossbow, consisting of a steel bow set in a shaft of wood, furnished with a string and a trigger, and a mechanical device for bending the bow. It served to throw arrows, darts, bullets, etc. [Written also arbalet and arblast.] Fosbroke.

To make appear archaic or antique. Mahaffy.

Toward one side; in a slanting direction; obliquely. [The shaft] drove through his neck aslant. Dryden.

A transverse bar or shaft connecting the opposite wheels of a car or carriage; an axletree.

The band which passes over the back of a horse and holds up the shafts of a carriage.

The annular molding or group of moldings dividing a long shaft or clustered column into two or more parts.

l gudgeon, a pivot of a spherical form, which permits lateral deflection of the arbor or shaft, while retaining the pivot in its socket. Knight. -- Ball lever, the lever used in a ball cock. -- Ball of the eye, the eye itself, as distinguished from its lids and socket; -- formerly, the pupil of the eye. -- Ball valv…

c architecture, the molding, or suite of moldings, which encircles the pillars and small shafts.

The ground at the top of a shaft; as, ores are brought to bank. Bank beaver (Zoöl.), the otter. [Local, U.S.] -- Bank swallow, a small American and European swallow (Clivicola riparia) that nests in a hole which it excavates in a bank.

A broad shaft, or band, or stripe; as, a bar of light; a bar of color.

To lay up in a barn. [Obs.] Shak. Men . . . often barn up the chaff, and burn up the grain. Fuller.

ood used in fastening the edges of a tarpaulin to the deck, also around masts to prevent chafing. (c) A long, thin strip used to strengthen a part, to cover a crack, etc. Batten door (Arch.), a door made of boards of the whole length of the door, secured by battens nailed crosswise.

the piston rod from which it receives motion, and the other with the crank of the wheel shaft; -- called also working beam or walking beam.

The part of an axle or shaft in contact with its support, collar, or boxing; the journal.