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Shafting

Shafting \Shaft"ing\, n. (Mach.) Shafts, collectivelly; a system of connected shafts for communicating motion.

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shafting

n. (context engineering English) shafts collectively; a system of connected shafts for communicating motion vb. (present participle of shaft English)

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Articles on Shafting include:

  • Shafting (computer software)
  • Roof_and_tunnel_hacking#Shafting

Usage examples of "shafting".

The muggy spring sun was shafting down between the heavy, puffy clouds, and now shot low through the trees.

When he picked up the pace until he was shafting her in long, driving lunges, she whimpered in delight.

Its management worshipped the super-capitalist ethic, expanding aggressively, milking governments for development contracts, pressuring the assembly for ever more convenient tax breaks, spreading subsidiaries across the Confederation, shafting the opposition at every opportunity.

Through the open bay doors they caught a glimpse of belts and shafting and whirring, clattering lathes and drill presses.

Out there, stitching up the punters, shafting the oppos, getting stuck into the real job.

While Basil caned Vanessa, Auda turned his attention back to Zoe, calmly shafting her while, as she dangled from her outstretched arms, the glittering weights swung from her clamped and swollen nipples.

The Boundary Dispute continues unresolved, they point out, and the Chancellory has failed to take a clear position on many grave issues -- for example, the vexing question of what really happened at Max Spielman's Shafting.

Central-factory systems, particularly alter the development of the rotary-vane air motor in the 1820s, superceded the clumsy, friction-ridden and dangerous belting and shafting the British pioneers of the Industrial Age had used.

I looked about then for my usual lynchers, and was surprised to see none in evidence, until I observed that the approaching motorcade was led by Stoker, and that Max was in his sidecar: the mass of studentdom had gone to Founder's Hill, I realized grimly, to watch the Shafting.

A violent chem storm raged during the night and some chunks of nuke debris came shafting from deep space, the detritus of the abortive Star Wars project of the 1980s that had finally circled back to its home planet, burning up in streaks of brilliant magnesium light.