shafting

English

Verb

shafting

1. present participle and gerund of shaft

Noun

shafting (countable and uncountable, plural shaftings)

1. 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 […]

2. (engineering) A system of connected shafts for communicating motion.
3. (slang) The act of deceiving or harming a person.

Anagrams

• tangfish