Definition of "shafts" []

• Plural form of shaft. (noun)
• Third-person singular simple present indicative form of shaft. (verb)

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• "It was substanceless, yet it filled up the four pink nursery walls, entering the room in shafts, structures it accepted from the windows interspersed along the wall."
• "This was constructed to run beside the ruts, and the horse did not occupy the middle of either the carriage or the road, but ran in shafts on one side, so as just to escape the heavy dragging fissure made by the waggon-wheels."
• "The use of the shafts is to clear out the channel from time to time."