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Ventilation tube in a building: 2 wds
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airshaft
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n. 1 (context architecture English) A vertical opening running from a courtyard to the sky, thus allowing air to circulate to high-rise apartments or offices 2 (context manufacturing English) A device used for handling winding reels in the processing of ...
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In manufacturing, an airshaft is a device used for handling winding reels in the processing of web-fed materials, such as continuous-process printing presses . Airshafts also called Air Expanding shafts are used in the manufacturing processes for fitting ...
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The centerpiece of this lowest, most exclusive strata of the bunker was a wide soaring airshaft that, as far as Vickers could see, extended almost to the surface and was at least a hundred feet across at its base.
Now, it was the sort of urban landscape that drove divorcees and aging bachelors to jump down the airshaft at Christmastime.
Most of the men who had participated in the wet, laborious task of digging out the airshaft had gone home by this time.
I waited impatiently for an airshaft, ascended to my office level, and practically ran down the corridor.
I looked for an escalator or an airshaft, but none had been provided, and so we trudged up the two dozen stone stairs and entered the museum.
Soon he would come to one of the great caverns where airshafts let in sunlight, and there he could buy enough food to see him on his way.
Before the network of passages ended, they found themselves in a circular place, where the vault was perforated by an airshaft that revealed, up above, the afternoon sky.