How To Use Haft In A Sentence

Phase I called for dewatering and rehabilitating the No.6 shaft, sinking the shaft to the 45th level, cutting seven level stations, and diamond drilling the conglomerate bed.
It has both a vertical shaft and an adit to an incline, which we and several mine officials entered in a small bus.
Gone was the staid decor and mahogany wood typical of the menswear shops on Shaftesbury Avenue. Times, Sunday Times
There was a Malay steward behind each chair, and over in the corner, silent but missing nothing, the squint-faced Jingo; even he had exchanged his loin-cloth for a silver sarong, with hornbill feathers in his hair and decorating the shaft of his sumpitan* (* Blowpipe.) standing handy against the wall. Flashman's Lady
I was happy as a sandboy — beautiful wife, beautiful children, house, secure job, good social life — then, wham, the wife hits me between the eyes with the muscled actor from next door who's been shafting her for months. Disordered Minds

Der Oberste oder Generalfeltmesser Surveyor general und der oberst Einzieher Receyvers general welche grad zur selbigen Zeit, wegen ihren Geschäften zu Londen sich befunden, und von dem Königlichen Comite so wohl als von den Lords propr. Christoph von Graffenried's Account of the Founding of New Bern. Edited with an Historical Introduction and an English Translation by Vincent H. Todd, Ph.D. University of Illinois in Cooperation with Julius Goebel, Ph.D., Professor of Germanic Languag
The traditional value of the blades was clearly recognized by their Aboriginal ‘collectors’, who sought to exploit it by hafting a resin handle in the traditional way.
The resulting explosions of fuel and air drive the pistons which turn the crankshaft.
Steel actually work-hardens over time, so in theory, steel shafts get slightly stiffer the more they're used.
The use of the bucket and telpher also eliminated most of the objectionable noise incident to the transfer of spoil from tunnel cars to ordinary wagons at the shaft sites. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, Vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The Cross-Town Tunnels. Paper No. 1158
Tasteful decor, melodious songs and shafts of sunlight from the ample windows provide the perfect ambience for appreciating the subtleties and splendours of curry cuisine.
First, if the shaft of a long bone be hit above the junction of diaphysis and epiphysis, the cancellous tissue in and extending from the medullary cavity is pulverised, and examination of fragments from such fractures gives the impression of the inner aspect having been scraped clean. Surgical Experiences in South Africa, 1899-1900 Being Mainly a Clinical Study of the Nature and Effects of Injuries Produced by Bullets of Small Calibre
The clothyard shafts found every crevice in their armor and the housings of the steeds. The Bloody Crown of Conan
Referring to Fig. 249, it is seen that the large expansion of the bone is produced by the gradual transition of the hollow shaft of compact bone to cancellated bone, resulting in the production of a much larger volume. II. Osteology. 6c. 3. The Femur
They threw the bodies down a mineshaft, only to discover that it was too shallow. Times, Sunday Times
They burrow into the rock and support shafts with branches and twigs. Times, Sunday Times
The others were found at the spot where they had been working in a shaft off the main access tunnel. The Sun
Here and there a soldado pulled up, screaming, as a barbed shaft found a crack or pierced a foot or leg. Fire The Sky
Instead of throwing the club from the top by unhinging your wrists immediately, you want to add lag by sharpening the angle created by the clubshaft and forearms.
Turn off the heating and use a radiator bleed key - from hardware shops - to turn the shaft anticlockwise for a quarter- or half-turn (don't unscrew it by more than one complete turn).
The municipal officer demands a bribe from a hawker; the bureaucrat refuses to register a land title or a marriage; the traffic cop beats the rickshaw-driver who can't afford to pay his weekly installment, known as hafta. India's Middle Class Hungers for Undemocratic Change
One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining. Garrison Keillor
By placing a cam phasing system on the camshaft, a pushrod engine can be tuned to take much higher levels of exhaust gas recirculation.
All mallets shown below have similar options for the head styles, the differences are in the shaft types.
A remarkable number of these programs end up with a kind of populist longing for Gemeinschaft amid the alienating Gesellschaft of modernity.
In the continuous working of pits, even where "tubbing" is used to keep the water out of the shaft as much as possible, the quantity of water is not unusually seven or eight times as great as that of the coal raised. The Coal Question~ Of the Cost of Coal Mining
On the first floor three two bedroom units will be built around a central stairwell and lift shaft.
The man who wants everyone - thats everyone not just some workshy feckless scrounger who has been unemployed for fifteen years - aka a miner shafter from the first time around - to work for their dole. The Guardian World News
Like in a car engine, the gas released from a manhole explosion could push on a piston and turn a crankshaft.
Lauren Wilson said the two men were busy with routine operations when the accident occurred at a subshaft at 9. 15am. ANC Daily News Briefing
Our new headquarters, nearer to the Boche depot, consisted simply of a deep stairless shaft with a 40 degrees slope. Pushed and the Return Push
Watch the camera slowly track down a dark hallway toward a shaft of light from a crack in a door.
The crankshaft was a nickel chrome steel forging, machined hollow, with four crank pins set at 180 degrees to each other, and carried in three bearings lined with anti-friction metal. A History of Aeronautics
I could see dust motes in a shaft of light that cut across my cubicle.
His early acting career probably began with performances before a network of recusant gentry in the Warwickshire area where he served as a resident player under the pseudonym Shakeshaft.
Once the ventilator shaft became blocked, the warehouse quickly filled with fumes.
All lines feature woods with high lofts, thin grips and lightweight graphite shafts.
A piston links to a drive shaft by means of a connecting rod.
The wood of the stave and arrow shafts was dark with moisture.
Now angle forward from your hips keeping the shaft touching those parts and you will get a feeling of keeping your back straight and your head up. Winning Golf for Women
This drive shaft would also serve as the ideal location for the cannon which would then fire directly down the center line of the fighter, making aiming of the weapon extremely easy.
The suction-stage, middle-stage, discharge-stage, diffusor and bearing support forms a working chamber and shaft, impeller, balance kettle and shaft sleeve are pump rotor parts.
But Rames also wore a sword, that sword hafted with the golden crocodile which Pharaoh had given him long ago -- that sword which Asti the foresighted had seen red with royal blood. Morning Star
Walker, standing at the foot of the shaft waiting for the answering signal from above, heard the noise and the rush of Mag's body as it bumped from side to side in its mad descent, and starting back, he was just in time to get clear as the mangled mass of rags and blood and pulpy flesh fell with a loud splashy thud at the bottom, the blood spattering and "jauping" him and the bottomer, and blinding their eyes as it flew all over them. The Underworld The Story of Robert Sinclair, Miner
Her propeller shaft was fouled and she was dragging her anchor, so Endurance, some 25 miles away when the call went out, closed in at top speed to act as on-scene commander.
I grandthinked after his obras after another time about the itch in his egondoom he was legging boldylugged from some pulversporochs and lyoking for a stool-eazy for to nemesisplotsch allafranka and for to salubrate himself with an ultradungs heavenly mass at his base by a suprime pomp-ship chorams the perished popes, the reverend and allaverred cromlecks, and when I heard his lewdbrogue reciping his cheap cheateary gospeds to sintry and santry and sentry and suntry I thought he was only haftara having afterhis brokeforths but be the homely Churopodvas I no sooner seen aghist of his frighte-ousness then I was bibbering with vear a few versets off fooling for fjorg for my fifth foot. Finnegans Wake
The cortical layer is actually the middle or inner layer of the hair shaft that provides the strength, elasticity and shape of the curly hair.
The parity in tennis offers a tonic to that grim statistic, a rare shaft of sunlight in a judgmental world. Times, Sunday Times
The engine also has a sportbike-derived chain-and-gear camshaft drive system that allows for a short/narrow cylinder head design and reduced overall engine height. Quad 2009 ATV Buyers Guide
A crew was sent down the shaft to close it off and bail out all the water.
Owing to its sheer size and the distribution of friction, the most likely starting point on an engine is the crankshaft, with its main and conrod bearings. Manufacturingtalk - manufacturing industry news
As a conclusion, the author suggests that some amendment to the present ZC Rules on shafting design seems to be necessary.
Shafts of sunlight pierced the heavy mist.
Unlike the torque sensor on Miller's car, which is fitted around the pinion shaft, Kalitta's is bolted to the back of the reverser.
Only if ye could compass a harmonious call frae the parish of Skreegh-me-dead, as ye anes had hope of, I trow it wad please him weel; since I hae heard him say, that the root of the matter was mair deeply hafted in that wild muirland parish than in the Canongate of Edinburgh. The Heart of Mid-Lothian
Diana dismissed it with contempt, as the shaft of a _frondeur_ discredited by both parties. The Testing of Diana Mallory
The workers were digging at an abandoned mineshaft that was depleted of commercial reserves.
A thumb switch near the right handlebar engages the motor to press a roller on the motor shaft, which helps spin the tire.
But fear not, we will be shafting them behind their backs by imposing a cruel financial duty on their well-priced and interesting wines.
As you should know once the authorisation is given to use firearms it is then down to the individual officer as to how and when to use their firearm, until authorization is withdrawn. on February 10, 2010 at 1: 27 pm Shafted Why front-line police officers are glad about Dizaei « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
Music-lovers will be further shafted by this theft in a more subtle way, as well.
Light shafted out of the box like the fall of a sword - a bright, white, ruthless light.
The numerous shafts in S. Sophia exhibit the remarkable and beautiful structural expedient of surrounding the shafts, both under the capital and above the base, by bronze annulets.
She cringed as her black blood ran down the shaft of the spear.
Sizing the engine for its current displacement meant that the crankshaft lost four pounds, and could ride on smaller bearing journals.
The three lowest horizontal bands of the lower portico's elegantly rusticated facade frame ten light and ventilation shafts for the basement, a flat keystone resting above each of the nearly square openings.
Rather it is hoped that the haecceity of this enchiridion of arcane and recondite sesquipedalian items will appeal to the oniomania of an eximious Gemeinschaft whose legerity and sophrosyne, whose Sprachgefühl and orexis will find more than fugacious fulfillment among its felicific pages. Languagehat.com
The charcoal could be put down old mine shafts for storage or mixed into soil to enrich it. Times, Sunday Times
I have a customer with a broken half-shaft, " went on Mr J.L.B. Matekoni. Blue Shoes And Happiness
The LS1 hydraulic roller camshaft has large bearing journals and a large-diameter base circle to minimize torsional twisting and stress.
Install pitman shaft and side cover in the housing.
This accounts for the modern forms limb (limber has excrescent b, regardless of whether it means "shaft," "holes in timber," or "pliable"; none of them is related to limb) and crumb.
I've only got up to section 3, which is about ventilation shafts.
Apply from the mid-shaft down, avoiding the root area so as to prevent an attack of the greasies. StyleList
Stepping out of the tiled farm shed - a converted lift shaft - is like walking into another world. Times, Sunday Times
The gearbox gets over both problems by being two half-gearboxes in one case, with two clutches and two transmission shafts, one inside the other.
This reminds me of one time that the chiller broke down and it took about 13 1/2 hours to put a new shaft in it because it had to be milled at a machine shop and then put in there.
The size of a grain of rice, lice lay small whitish or brownish eggs called nits that stick to hair shafts about an inch or two from the scalp. Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion
I do not really know exactly why, but the great tower, whose fluted shaft, dark red in the sunglow, shoots up some 270 feet into the air, did not appeal to me. A Holiday in the Happy Valley with Pen and Pencil
The camp provided the Germans tautological proof of the necessity of imprisoning Untermenschen: the disgusting state of the Haftlinge of Auschwitz demonstrated their inferiority and justified their murder.
The public saved more than that in a year, and in a way that keeps government functioning effectively without shafting either government workers, the needy, or anybody else in the general public. Richard (RJ) Eskow: Dear Washington DC: The Public Is Smarter About Money (and Deficits) Than You Are
It's like an opinion poll, except you get the shaft.
As Tharanal had led them towards it yesterday, he'd seen thick plumes of smoke - and other, more noxious vapors - rising from outlying ventilation shafts like the fumaroles of volcanos.
When waves cause the coil to move up and down relative to the fixed magnetic shaft, voltage is induced and electricity is generated.
You can pay 130 for a dingy room with a view of an air-conditioning shaft. Times, Sunday Times
Power exits the transmission through a custom metal matrix composite aluminum driveshaft into a race-specification differential with a 4.56: 1 final drive ratio.
i hafta say..your title fooled me good...everyone knows glenn can say whatever he wants. Oh, Glenn Loury is not allowed to say that.
It took three hours of climbing to reach the top where a sign warned of mineshafts.
Tom Spink and Louis were on top the chart-house with me and preparing to lower the flour, when we heard a voice issuing from the shaft. CHAPTER XLIX
All of the 28 miners who were working in the shaft were killed when an underground cable caught fire at about 8:10 pm at Xiaonangou coal mine at Sangshuping Township of Hancheng City.
She was entering the lobby when a fireball exploded from the elevator shaft.
He hurled it into the chest of the monster and the trident transformed itself into a shaft of lightning, exploding into the beast.
Sophie blew smoke up into light shafting down from an upstairs window. Lance Mannion:
At the bottom of the shaft two 700-foot crosscuts were driven in a northwest and southeast direction.
The priest was just behind her, and I swung the broken billhook haft and landed a two-handed wallop on one of his shins. Wildfire
Edward was buried without due honour at Wareham, though his body was later translated to Shaftesbury.
The shaft of long handled tools should be a light wood, such as ash, and should be unpainted and free of knots.
The only traditional bricklaying was around the lift shaft in the rear courtyard.
The mine later built a condensing plant and distilled the water pumped from the shafts.
General Shafter corrected, and the three officers, bouncing about as they tried to peer down through the clouds, laughed.
We heard the rhythmic pounding as the spear points were hammered onto shafts of ash wood.
The previous Eccentric Club, started in 1890 by Jack Harrison, a theatrical costumier and the father of popular musical comedy actresses Phyllis Monkman, Dorothy Monkman and Beryl Harrison, from its humble beginnings in Shaftesbury Avenue rose to become one of the most influential artistic and business establishments in Britain as well as one of its most generous charities. Archive 2008-08-01
Murphy and Clovis were enjoying an eye-opener in their cell as the morning sun streamed through the window bars in thick shafts.
D95R, badly damaged, needed a new oil pump and crankshaft. Wild Ride
Loaded pauses and … belaboured accentuation as the automotive irritants vroom through another joke … about driveshafts. Top Gear, New Tricks, Lewis … the television shows that won't die
Consideration of how straight- and contracting-stemmed points might have been hafted is initially confounding.
Shaftesbury's formulation of sentimentality as either a manifestation of latitudinarianism or deism, both vaguely secularized systems of advancing self-sufficient virtue as the means by which manners dominated and controlled behavior in the public realm. Talking About Virtue: Paisiello's 'Nina,' Paër's 'Agnese,' and the Sentimental Ethos
Blood pearled around the shaft of the arrow, bright red, and swelled there like a parasite until it crept down her cheek.
The shaft at Moorfield had the brattice removed and was fitted out with two double-decked cages.
What better way to top the shortlist than to shaft a rival agent handler?
This shaft also carries the main cogwheel which engages with a rack between the running rails on the section where the steepness of the gradient calls for its use.
Such religions play a crucial role in binding people together into tight Gemeinschaft communities and separating them from other communities.
In 1782, Watt developed a rotary engine that could turn a shaft and drive machinery to power the machines to spin and weave cotton cloth.
They got down to the end of the corridor to the hole in the door leading to the lift shaft.
GM has revised the extensively re-engineered U-van floorpan to accept a driveshaft tunnel and all-wheel drive option.
Among the debris in the buried concentration was a small, shallow side notched biface which has been identified as a hafted biface.
Whole buildings," we are told, "seemed to sweat as condensation formed on every wall, and the stench — always terrible — even in the depths of winter frosts — reached new heights of toxicity, flowing up from the sewers, privies, and yards, and filling the halls, stairways and airshafts like a rising tide. A Gangster Goes to War
Engineers designed a sandwich using a second injection-molded part: A separately produced oil deflector, which is vibration-welded onto the flat section of the pan, helps to calm the oil churned by the crankshaft and balance shaft. All DN headlines
Thus, in this small set, notched points and those hafted onto foreshafts are substantially smaller than contracting-stemmed points.
For example, bowstrings were easily split, spear shafts easily broken and use of the arquebus often dictated by the weather.
Deutsche Forschungs-gemeinschaft Grants Ma 1289 / 4-1, SFB 796, and SFB 473, and Endeavor Europe Awards, Australia (to S. R.). Journal of Biological Chemistry current issue
The two motors - a 115 horsepower Johnson outboard and a 9.9 horsepower electric long shaft Mercury outboard - are fairly new.
In addition, there is room above the crank to isolate the camshaft in a cast tubular chamber - making the cylinder block stiffer.
So he called at a place he had heard of in Shaftesbury Avenue, where there was a "josser" who arranged it for him quite simply by means of a bill of sale upon his furniture. The Combined Maze
Two methods of changing staircase shaft into elevator shaft in building renovation are introduced.
From the metallic zizz of the starter motor and the first flurry of revs to the final frantic thrashings of the crankshaft, this is swansong motoring.
In both sets of thumbs, Sissy's and his own, Dr. Robbins could see shafts, flat on the volar surface, smooth and rounded on the dorsal surface, that is, semicylindrical in shape. Even Cowgirls Get The Blues
Alternatively, the front bearing assembly could be reversed, with the shaft mounted in the flow straightener hub, and the olive ring and endstone in the inducer hub.
It is made with pongee nylon for less creasing of the fabric, it has a hexagon shaft for added durability, and a polished wooden handle.
After all, it's only chucking three feathered, tungsten-shafted mini-missiles into a board from a short distance.
North Shaft can be descended using SRT, but it needs to be rigged from natural belays.
He says in the 1950's there were plans to dump nuclear waste in mineshafts.
He would lend us his shafter to bring up our load.
In the spaces between the shafts of the middle arch, but not of the others, are crockets for the whole height, and the innermost cavetto is entirely filled with dog-tooth ornament. The Cathedral Church of Peterborough A Description Of Its Fabric And A Brief History Of The Episcopal See
Notching flakes are produced when putting hafting notches in stone tools.
With the proposed full-order observer, the flux linkage of motor can be accurately observed and high performance achieved without shaft encoder.
Dynamic Bicycles, a Medway, Massachusetts company, combined the shaft drive system with a covered, self-lubricating internal gear mechanism in 2005. Sustainable: Travel
To keep friends with such a cast of mind, whose motto is Nelson's, you must do your duty; never mind if you sink a shicer, bottom your shaft any how.
Mounted on top of the caisson was a 5-ton Wilson crane, which would reach each shaft and also the muck cars standing on tracks on the ground level beside the caissons. Transactions of the American Society of Civil Engineers, vol. LXVIII, Sept. 1910 The New York Tunnel Extension of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The East River Tunnels. Paper No. 1159
I put one horse between the shafts and a horse on either side with whiffletrees, and so forth, so that they could all pull even on it.
The black shafts were right in front of her nose and she noticed a foul odor coming from them.
I recently broke the shaft of my 3-wood at the hosel.
Instead, Shaftesbury assumes that the language in which we conduct our introspection is always public. Post-Secular Conviviality
Supercolumns are connected to concrete foundations through reinforcing dowels set into drilled shafts.
Extending immediately below the camshaft is another vertical shaft, driven by bevel gears from the crank-shaft, and terminating in a worm which drives the multiple piston oil pumps. A History of Aeronautics
The high friction then caused the weakened propeller shaft to break and the prop tore away taking the shaft with it.
The parallel layshafts are located below one another giving a drop drive with outputs to the front and rear axle sets.
It's that first sly whiff of tobacco on the air, the steel-blue smoke slinking seductively across a shaft of light, the embers glowing brightly as a smoker draws in.
If table index shafts are loose, tighten mounting bolts.
Her most emotional moments are pierced by shafts of wit. Times, Sunday Times
The upper bearing is made with revolving shaft running in adjustable bearings, same as our regular bandsaws.
The June light, now approaching the middle hours of the day, and radiant with sunshine, fell in long golden shafts across the body of the choir and into the ranks of the brothers and obedientiaries opposite, gilding half a face here and throwing its other half into exaggerated shade, there causing dazzled eyes in a blanched face to blink away the brightness. The Rose Rent
Besides drink and foodstuffs the pack trains brought in the pickaxes, shovels and other ironware that the miners required when sinking shafts to reach bedrock.
Fred had already dug seven metres of a mineshaft at his Grade II listed home when councillors refused him retrospective planning permission after complaints from neighbours.
The cumulonimbus is the Savage Beast of the Sky, a beautiful shaft of pregnant water bubbling at 26,000 feet, about to open up a can of whoop-ass on you and yours. 8/8/02 This one goes out
Every opening into an elevator shaft or hoistway and every opening through a floor, other than a stairway, shall be closed when not in use. Acts and resolves passed by the General Court
Imagine the escapement-wheel of a common dead-beat clock to be mounted on a collar fitting easily upon a shaft, instead of being rigidly attached to it.
Material: fitting the high intensity cold plate, the surface spray; Matt reflector using quality aluminum; Stall use of aluminum shafts starting grid.
Long-hafted, slender, bone-barbed throwing-spears lay along the gunwale of the canoe, while a quiverful of arrows hung on each man's back. Chapter 22
She was clad in brocades befitting Kings; her breasts were like twin pomegranates, a woven zone set with all kinds of jewels tightly clasped her waist which expanded below into jutting hips; and her hinder cheeks stood out as a mound of crystal185 supporting a silvern shaft. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
At the foot they substituted the base in place of a shoe; in the capital they placed the volutes, hanging down at the right and left like curly ringlets, and ornamented its front with cymatia and with festoons of fruit arranged in place of hair, while they brought the flutes down the whole shaft, falling like the folds in the robes worn by matrons. The Ten Books on Architecture
The result is a 2.2-litre engine with 16 valves, twin overhead camshafts and a pair of vibration-reducing balancer shafts.
When vegetation is light, the right hand can release the shaft when maximally extended, allowing the slasher to pivot at the left shoulder.
But Davey's quiet life changes when he falls in love with the tactless but vulnerable Sarah, a Scottish bargee who stays with him in his lock-keeper's cottage while her narrow-boat's broken propeller-shaft is repaired.
The rocker arms are roller tipped and ride on needle bearings mounted on individual stub shafts.
The lift itself was fine; I could hear it chugging up and down the shaft, and the door on the inside was certainly sliding open with the familiar crunch, but there was no way I could actually get in.
A worker was decapitated when a lift plummeted down the shaft on top of him.
We heard the rhythmic pounding as the spear points were hammered onto shafts of ash wood.
Lucie and Matt crawled through the musty vent shaft.
Keyed on to the crankshaft is a flanged pulley 10 in. in diameter by 3¼ in. between flanges. Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891
It turns out that all permanent dye must use PPD to adhere to the hair shaft and peroxide to open it.
In fall and winter, look for bald eagles, American dippers, mergansers, red-shafted Northern flickers, red-tailed hawks, and Townsend's solitaires.
The most abundant resident birds are the bushtit, pinyon jay, plain titmouse, black-chinned hummingbird, Woodhouse's jay, red-tailed hawk, golden eagle, red-shafted flicker, and rock wren. Colorado Plateau Semidesert Province (Bailey)
The shaft is made of charcoal anodised aluminium, inlaid with indigenous dark kershout (candle wood) and light boxwood.
Then, on each side of that there's something called the half-shaft that goes to the wheel on either side. Blue Shoes And Happiness
The combination of a center-mounted spool valve and check valve allow the camshaft's torsional energy to assist actuation, rather than oppose it.
The carrier is a sleeve that encloses bearings and seals intended to prevent water from entering the sterndrive housing at the drive shaft.
Both planes were triplanes with twin tractor airscrews driven by shafts from the fuselage.
Your left thumb is slightly to the right of centre of the club shaft as you look down. Christy O'Connor Junior's Golf Masterclass
Reefs 'No 2 shaft on May 10 last year, the day of the accident that killed 104 miners, said in reply to a question by state counsel R du Toit: "The white man (onsetter Christ du Plooy, his supervisor) should report that. ANC Daily News Briefing
The hosel, securing the head to the shaft, has a ring and a sleeve—each with four settings. Golf's Perennial Question
Properly inoculant amount was used to reduce the chill depth of the cam during the production of chilled iron camshaft.
But Anna sang on, her voice rising like a shaft of pure melancholy in the cold air, now evoking Schubert's poignant hurdy-gurdy man. DREAMS OF INNOCENCE
A bold and ingenious treatment of the vaulting shaft of the tower groining is used on these piers; on the western ones the shafts stop upon the ends of the hood moulding. The Churches of Coventry A Short History of the City & Its Medieval Remains
[1] As the cells in the three regions begin to keratinize and harden, they are integrated into the dead (keratinized) portion of the hair fiber; new hair cells in the hair bulb region push the dead shaft upwards towards the skin's surface. CreationWiki - Recent changes [en]
John came out with an unexpected shaft of wit/wisdom.
Suddenly a shaft of sunlight burst through the fluffy clouds. Times, Sunday Times
Skippy was just explaining to the park ranger the whereabouts of the lost boy in the mineshaft, when we heard the blast.
On Friday the company reported a fire at East Driefontein gold mine's Number 4 subvertical shaft, about 2500m below surface. ANC Daily News Briefing
The axle housing is a square carbon fiber tube containing individual elastomeric elements on a splined shaft.
There is also an overhead countershaft with strap shifting arrangement. Scientific American Supplement, No. 799, April 25, 1891
Attributes were measured using dial metric calipers and a portable digital scale and included length, haft width, weight, shoulder width, and maximum thickness.
I suppose it's just that carbon shafting dominates the target scene these dayze.
Pronator teres is a band like, strong muscle that inserts onto the middle third of the shaft of the radius.
Lifting his hand, Shanza barely had time to wrap his blood-smeared fingers around the smooth shaft and yank before his knee collided with the ground and he sank into oblivion.
Schofield and Mother hit the western wall of the hall and unclipped clasps on their chains—causing the chains to unreel from the ceiling, lowering the two of them to the floor of the room right in front of the doorway leading back to the elevator shaft. Hell Island
To save additional space, the exhaust camshafts are driven by secondary chains attached to the intake camshafts, and the starter motor is mounted directly above the transmission.
After another half-hour, the first rescue people began to explore the shaft. Lost Voices of the Edwardians: 19011910 in the words of the Men & Women Who Were There
Cuba was beleaguered by the Americans under General Shafter; the forts had been destroyed by Admirals Schley and Sampson; General Linares, in command there, had been wounded and placed _hors de combat_; the large force of Spanish troops within the walls was well armed and munitioned, but being half-starved, the _morale_ of the rank-and-file was at a low ebb, and General Toral, who succeeded General Linares, capitulated. The Philippine Islands
The influent pump shaft acts as a lift station delivering raw sewage from a newly constructed 9.5-mile-long 18-foot diameter rock tunnel.

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