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To draft or draw anew.

To graft again.

A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, -- usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines; -- called also rocker, rocking shaft, and way shaft.

arrow. His sleep, his meat, his drink, is him bereft, That lean he wax, and dry as is a shaft. Chaucer. A shaft hath three principal parts, the stele [stale], the feathers, and the head. Ascham.

Furnished with a shaft, or with shafts; as, a shafted arch.

Shafts, collectivelly; a system of connected shafts for communicating motion.

A measure of about six inches. [Obs.]

The art or occupation of a smith; smithing. [R.] Sir W. Raleigh.

mposition; versification. A half-effected inscription. Written with little skill of songcraft. Longfellow.

Astrology. [R.] Tennyson.

The art of conducting state affairs; state management; statesmanship.

After that; afterward.

A sly trick or device; as, an undercraft of authors. [R.] Sterne.

To waft upward. Cowper.

give notice to by waving something; to wave the hand to; to beckon. [Obs.] But soft: who wafts us yonder Shak.

Conveyance on a buoyant medium, as air or water. Shak. Boats prepared for waftage to and fro. Drayton.

One who, or that which, wafts. O Charon, Thou wafter of the soul to bliss or bane. Beau. & FL.

The act of waving; a wavelike motion; a waft. R. Browning. An angry wafture of your hand. Shak.

Any vessel or boat plying on water; vessels and boats, collectively.

A rock shaft.