Shaft

Morpheme

Shaft

Type

free base

Denotation

rod, stem, stalk

Etymology

Middle English shafte; Old English sċeaft

Evidence

aftershaft, airshaft, camshaft, crankshaft, driveshaft, dropshaft, foreshaft, hairshaft, jackshaft, liftshaft, midshaft, mineshaft, shafted, shafting, shafts, shaftwork, shafty, sunshaft

See Also

Scape