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shafting

[shaf-ting, shahf-]

noun

  1. a number of shafts.

  2. Machinery.a system of shafts, as the overhead shafts formerly used for driving the machinery of a mill.

  3. steel bar stock used for shafts.

  4. Architecture.a system of shafts, as those around a pier or in the reveals of an archway.

  5. Slang.an instance of unique or unfair treatment.

    The owners gave him a real shafting on the deal.

shafting

/ ˈʃɑːڳɪŋ /

noun

  1. an assembly of rotating shafts for transmitting power

  2. the stock from which shafts are made

  3. architect a set of shafts

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Word History and Origins

Origin of shafting1

First recorded in 1815–25; shaft + -ing 1

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