shafting
English
[edit]Verb
[edit]shafting
- present participle and gerund of shaft
Noun
[edit]shafting (countable and uncountable, plural shaftings)
- Shafts collectively.
- 1968, Bulletin of the Texas Archeological Society, volumes 38-40, page 232:
- Numerous excursions into the field proved to the author that stone axes were unsuitable for gathering shaftings of the proper diameter for arrows. Chopping resulted in long tapering ends […]
- (engineering) A system of connected shafts for communicating motion.
- (slang) The act of deceiving or harming a person.