Wiktionary
liftshaft
alt. (context UK English) The vertical shaft in a building used to permit the movement of a lift (elevator) from floor to floor. n. (context UK English) The vertical shaft in a building used to permit the movement of a lift (elevator) from floor to floor.
Usage examples of "liftshaft".
With great solicitousness they greeted Hissune and took him at once to the liftshaft reserved for Powers and their emissaries, which carried him swiftly down to the deep imperial levels of the Labyrinth.
Hissune traveled, feeling rumpled and sweaty and apprehensive, through passageways and liftshafts he had known all his life, and soon the shabby world of the outermost ring was far behind him.
Ahead, Rudi stood before the door to the liftshaft, his pose one of stiffness and anger.