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n. (plural of shaft English) vb. (en-third-person singular of: shaft)

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Shafts was an English feminist periodical produced by Margaret Sibthorp from 1892 until 1899. Initially published weekly and priced at one penny, its themes included votes for women, women's education, and radical attitudes towards vivisection, dress reform, women's control of their sexuality, child care, and vegetarianism.

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A little to the left the two shafts of Wheal Geevor showed black scaffolds against the copper sea.

I could even pick out the various shafts, getting my bearings from the broken ruins of the old engine houses that were the only ordered things in that chaos of tumbled stone.

There were old shafts surrounded by circular stone walls and great concrete pits, all broken by frost, where the tin had been washed.

Except for odd shafts there was only that one way into the old workings by Come Lucky.

A blackened finger pointed to one of the side shafts that The Shadow had followed.

The mine shafts, when examined, will be definite proof of crookedness on the part of these criminals.

Vain, too, would have been the hewing out of the Subterranean Chamber itself, and also of its further shafts and pits.

Fourthly, the tops of the shafts must be covered with other special blocks with sloping undersides.

The point that we wish to make here, however, is the obvious one that shafts which were originally closed at both ends could not possibly have been used, or intended, for ventilation.

As we have seen, two of these shafts are aligned perfectly to due north and the other two perfectly to due south.

Early in 1991 he submitted a proposal for the videoscopic examination of the shafts to the German Archaeological Institute in Cairo.

Chamber shafts at some point during his project and saw no difficulty in fitting these shafts with the electric fans called for by the ventilation scheme.

Gantenbrink made use of an old axle from the wreck of an abandoned truck in the nearby village of Nazlet-el-Sammam, which he attached to a cable and yanked up and down the shafts to push out the debris and sand that had piled up inside them.

She had concluded that the shafts were astronomically aligned, she said, and that they had an astronomical function, because logic and evidence dictated that this was the case.

But there is something curious about the position of the two chambers from which these shafts emanate.