Definition of Subshaft

1. a shaft that is beneath another shaft [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Subshaft

subserved
subserves
subserviate
subservience
subserviences
subserviencies
subserviency
subservient
subserviently
subservientness
subserving
subsessile
subset
subsets
subshaft (current term)
subshafts
subshell
subshells
subshift
subshifts
subshock
subshrub
subshrubs
subside
subsided
subsidence
subsidences
subsider
subsiders

Literary usage of Subshaft

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Conditions in the Copper Mines of Michigan: Hearings Before the United by United States Congress. House. Committee on Mines and Mining (1914)
"Does this subshaft go down with the incline of the vein? Mr. KERR. In other words, the subshaft is sunk in what is called the foot wall? ..."

2. Dyke's Automobile and Gasoline Engine Encyclopedia by Andrew Lee Dyke (1919)
"Remove the two bearing caps "R" and "R" and move back the sub-shaft F" move the front end of the subshaft it can be taken o»t through the top of the case. ..."

3. Memoirs Chiefly Illustrative of the History and Antiquities of Northumberland by Royal Archaeological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland, Charles Henry Hartshorne (1858)
"... lights in the recess, this subshaft having a heavy cushion capital,—there is nothing peculiar in this. ..."

4. Feudal and Military Antiquities of Northumberland and the Scottish Borders by Charles Henry Hartshorne (1858)
"... lights in the recess, this subshaft having a heavy cushion capital,—there is nothing peculiar in this. The form may range through a century. ..."

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