Word Meanings - FOUNDERSHAFT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The first shaft sunk. Raymond.

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• FIRST
  Sw. & Dan. förste, OHG. furist, G. fürst prince; a superlatiye form 1. Preceding all others of a series or kind; the ordinal of one; earliest; as, the first day of a month; the first year of a reign. 2. Foremost; in front of, or in advance of,
• SHAFTING
  Shafts, collectivelly; a system of connected shafts for communicating motion.
• SHAFTMAN; SHAFTMENT
  A measure of about six inches.
• FIRST-CLASS
  Of the best class; of the highest rank; in the first division; of the best quality; first-rate; as, a first-class telescope. First- class car or First-class railway carriage, any passenger car of the highest regular class, and intended
• FIRST-RATE
  Of the highest excellence; preëminent in quality, size, or estimation. Our only first-rate body of contemporary poetry is the German. M. Arnold. Hermocrates . . . a man of first-rate ability. Jowett .
• SHAFT
  A rod at the end of a heddle. A solid or hollow cylinder or bar, having one or more journals on which it rests and revolves, and intended to carry one or more wheels or other revolving parts and to transmit power or motion; as, the shaft of a steam
• FIRSTLY
  In the first place; before anything else; -- sometimes improperly used for first.
• SHAFTED
  Having a shaft; -- applied to a spear when the head and the shaft are of different tinctures. (more info) 1. Furnished with a shaft, or with shafts; as, a shafted arch.
• FIRSTLING
  1. The first produce or offspring; -- said of animals, especially domestic animals; as, the firstlings of his flock. Milton. 2. The thing first thought or done. The very firstlings of my heart shall be The firstlings of my hand. Shak.
• FIRST-HAND
  Obtained directly from the first or original source; hence, without the intervention of an agent. One sphere there is . . . where the apprehension of him is first-hand and direct; and that is the sphere of our own mind. J. Martineau.
• FIRSTBORN
  First brought forth; first in the order of nativity; eldest; hence, most excellent; most distinguished or exalted.
• WAY SHAFT
  A rock shaft.
• AIR SHAFT
  A passage, usually vertical, for admitting fresh air into a mine or a tunnel.
• AFTERSHAFT
  The hypoptilum.
• ROCK SHAFT
  A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, -- usually carrying levers by means of which it receives and communicates reciprocating motion, as in the valve gear of some steam engines; -- called also rocker, rocking shaft, and
• HEADFIRST; HEADFOREMOST
  With the head foremost.
• FOUNDERSHAFT
  The first shaft sunk. Raymond.
• PRICKSHAFT
  An arrow.
• COUNTERSHAFT
  An intermediate shaft; esp., one which receives motion from a line shaft in a factory and transmits it to a machine.