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Definition of Shafted
1. a. Furnished with a shaft, or with shafts; as, a shafted arch.
Definition of Shafted
1. Verb. (past of shaft) ¹
2. Adjective. fitted with a shaft ¹
3. Adjective. (heraldry of a spear) Having a shaft and head of different tinctures. ¹
4. Adjective. (slang) screwed (in all senses); ripped off ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Shafted
1. shaft [v] - See also: shaft
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shafted
Literary usage of Shafted
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. On the Genesis of Species by St. George Jackson Mivart (1871)
"It is true that the absence of mimicry in other forms may be explained by their
possessing some other (as TUB SIX-shafted BIED OF ..."
2. Campfires on Desert and Lava by William Temple Hornaday (1908)
"... of the Cactus Wren—The Crissal Thrasher's Nest— Western Red-Tailed Hawk—The
Red-shafted Flicker—Nests in the Giant Cactus—The Crows at the Papago Tanks, ..."
3. Diseases of the Stomach and Upper Alimentary Tract by Anthony Bassler (1910)
"The long-shafted electrode greatly facilitates in doing this comfortably. ...
Author's long-shafted hand electrode. it is well to place the electrode on the ..."
4. Narrative of a Journey to the Shores of the Arctic Ocean in 1833, 1834, and by Richard King (1836)
"Golden-shafted Woodpecker.—Discovery of several new Species of Insects.—Important
Discoveries regarding the Barren-ground Rein-deer. ..."
5. The Evanescent City: By George Sterling by George Sterling, Francis Joseph Bruguière (1915)
"... city of a year Must pass like those the shafted sunsets build, Fleeting as
all fair things and, fleeting, dear— A rainbow fallen and an anthem stilled. ..."
6. Woman's Record: Or, Sketches of All Distinguished Women, from "the Beginning by Sarah Josepha Buell Hale (1853)
"Beautiful isles! beneath the sunset skies Tall silver-shafted palm trees rise h-
im • м Full orange trees that shade The living colonnade; Alas! how sad, ..."
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