- a number of shafts.
- a system of shafts, as the overhead shafts formerly used for driving the machinery of a mill.
- steel bar stock used for shafts.
- a system of shafts, as those around a pier or in the reveals of an archway.
- an instance of unique or unfair treatment: The owners gave him a real shafting on the deal.
- an assembly of rotating shafts for transmitting power
- the stock from which shafts are made
- a set of shafts
