What is "shaftway"

Usage examples of "shaftway".

As he wrestled it up the shaftway he could hear Sylla promising to defeather Alouette.

Across from the lock was a pantry cubby and the shaftway down which he had first followed Imray.

He drove the prisoners back from the hatch, then ordered another guard at a console far down the shaftway to kill the snapfield.

Emitting a feral scream, she leaped on the guard who stood between her and the gate at the end of the brig shaftway, tore at his throat with her teeth, and left him bleeding on the deck to charge into the Holot guards who stood beside the gate.

The cells were open and they were being paraded in the shaftway again.

Krinata curled up by the snapfield, where she could see a bit of shaftway and other snapfields.

Sit here, see the shaftway, and imagine the cells clear of fields and bars.

A flimsy wall around the shaftway marked off the living quarters: folding bunks, galley, bath, table, benches, shelves, lockers, all crammed into a six-meter circle.

Conceivably, the intruder could have leaped across the shaftway, caught the windowsill on the opposite wall, and then boosted himself up into the apartment there.

Light from the skylight spilled down the shaftway of the spiral stairs, and the stairway, painted white and its walnut shining, was spot lighted gaily.

He backed off, having crashed into sliding shaftway doors that had been closed.

Directly above the snarl, Hatch could see several large shaftways converge onto the main Pit, damp seaweed and kelp dangling like steaming beards from their mouths.

They put the car down one of the shaftways until they ran into heavy fire from below, at the limit of the advance, and then turned into a broad hallway, floating high enough to clear the heads of the men on foot.