shaft

1. 1.

   equip with a shaft

   Broaderequip
2. 2.

   defeat someone through trickery or deceit

   Synonymscheatchousescrewchicanejockey

   Broaderbeat

Other forms of shaft

plural

shafts·

past tense

shafted·

present participle

shafting·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about shaft

What does shaft mean?

shaft means "a line that forms the length of an arrow pointer". That is the primary sense; the word has 14 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in shaft?

shaft has 1 syllable: shaft. In IPA it is /ˈʃæft/.

What is another word for shaft?

Close synonyms include shot, slam, dig, barb, jibe. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is shaft a common word?

shaft is banded "Common" — everyday vocabulary in speech and writing. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.

What rhymes with shaft?

2 words rhyme with shaft. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.