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shafted, a.|ˈʃɑːftɪd, ˈʃæft-|
[f. shaft n.2 + -ed2.]
Having or furnished with a shaft or shafts. a. Her. Of a spear, arrow, or similar weapon: Having the shaft of a specified tincture.
1586J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 221 Tomyris, Queene of Scythia: did beare Iupiters thunder-bolt Or: shafted and winged Argent. 1661Morgan Sph. Gentry i. iv. 50 Jupiters Thunderbolt in pale or,..shafted saltirewayes argent.
b. Furnished with a shaft or handle. Chiefly in parasynthetic derivatives, as long-shafted.
1641D. Fergusson's Sc. Prov. (1785) 14 He should hae a long shafted spoon that sups kail wi' the devil. 1869Boutell Arms & Armour App. (1905) 273 Fourteen Examples of Shafted Weapons. 1870Morris Earthly Par. III. iv. 46 He crept along, Poising a spear, thick shafted, strong, In his right hand. 1879Echo 21 Mar. 2/5 Those [assegais]..are thrown by the hand..and are less strongly shafted than the charging weapon.
c. Arch. Ornamented with or resting upon shafts.
1801A. Ranken Hist. France I. i. v. 452 Hence proceeded the pointed arches, the shafted columns [etc.]. 1805Scott Last Minstr. ii. i, When the broken arches are black in night, And each shafted oriel glimmers white. 1835R. Willis Archit. Mid. Ages iii. 29 These imposts are divided into two classes, which may be called Shafted and Banded. In shafted archways the horizontal section of the upright is different from that of the arch taken immediately above the impost, and generally much plainer. 1878Sir G. G. Scott Lect. Archit. (1879) 279 Even when the exterior is shafted the inner splay often comes close to the face of the recessed order. 1812Archæol. Cant. XIV. 364 Seven-foiled lights, with shafted mullions of Decorated character.
d. Ornith. In comb. with prefixed word: Having the shafts (of feathers) of a specified character or number.
1809Shaw Gen. Zool. VII. 496 Six-shafted Paradise-bird. 1831Red-shafted [see red a. 14 b]. |
