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A carriage on which very small guns were formerly mounted, the gun resting on the shafts, without a limber. Farrow. Galloper gun, a light gun, supported on a galloper, -- formerly attached to British infantry regiments.

elow). -- Gang drill, a drilling machine having a number of drills driven from a common shaft. -- Gang master, a master or employer of a gang of workmen. -- Gang plank. See Gang board (above). -- Gang plow. See Gang cultivator (above). -- Gang press, a press for operating upon a pile or row of objects separated by…

properly the latter) of a cylindrical wheel; -- for transmitting motion between parallel shafts, etc.

The lining of a mine shaft with stones or bricks to prevent caving.

A shady, gloomy, or dark place or grove. Before a gloom of stubborn-shafted oaks. Tennyson .

In some columns, that part of the capital between the termination of the shaft and the annulet of the echinus, or the space between two neck moldings; -- called also neck of the capital, and hypotrachelium. See Illust. of Column.

hat which, grooms horses; especially, a brush rotated by a flexible or jointed revolving shaft, for cleaning horses.

A shaft or excavation. [Prov. Eng.]

er, exposure, or attack; defense; protection. His greatness was no guard to bar heaven's shaft. Shak.

The pin of iron fastened in the end of a wooden shaft or axle, on which it turns; formerly, any journal, or pivot, or bearing, as the pintle and eye of a hinge, but esp. the end journal of a horizontal.

part of vessels, instruments, etc., which is held in the hand when used or moved, as the haft of a sword, the knob of a door, the bail of a kettle, etc.

Same as Haft, n. [Obs.] Waller.

A shaft in a coal pit; a hollow in a quarry. [Scot.]

ish*ly, adv. -- Hog"gish*ness, n. Is not a hoggish life the height of some men's wishes Shaftesbury.

he posterior side of the stem of the contour feathers of many birds; -- called also aftershaft. See Illust. of Feather.

One of the barbs of the hypoptilum, or aftershaft of a feather. See Feather.

The stem of an aftershaft or hypoptilum. [Written also hyporachis.]

nowledge or mental capacity; idiocy; foolishness. Worse than mere ignorance or idiotism. Shaftesbury. The running that adventure is the greatist idiotism. Hammond.

nected with a hoisting machine, to show, at the surface, the position of the cage in the shaft of a mine, etc.

, in a steam or other engine, a stroke in which the piston is moving away from the crank shaft; -- opposed to outstroke.