monkey-shaft

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• Shaft

  ·noun A rod at the end of a heddle. II. Shaft ·noun A pole, especially a Maypole. III. Shaft ·noun...

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• shaft

  A handle; as, a whip-shaft, the handle of a whip.--Jamieson, Scottish Dictionary. ...

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• shaft

  a lead-mine, or coal-pit. North. ...

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• Monkey

  ·noun Any species of Quadrumana, except the lemurs. II. Monkey ·noun A small trading vessel of the ...

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• monkey

  To suck the monkey; to suck or draw wine, or any other liquor, privately out of a cask, by means of ...

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• monkey

  A machine composed of a long pig of iron, traversing in a groove, which is raised by a pulley, and l...

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• Air shaft

  ·- A passage, usually vertical, for admitting fresh air into a mine or a tunnel. ...

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• Butt shaft

  ·- An arrow without a barb, for shooting at butts; an <<Arrow>>. ...

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• Lay shaft

  ·add. ·noun ·Alt. of <<Layshaft>>. ...

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• Rock shaft

  ·- A shaft that oscillates on its journals, instead of revolving, — usually carrying levers by means...

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• Way shaft

  ·- A rock shaft. II. Way shaft ·- An interior shaft, usually one connecting two levels. ...

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• Shaft Alley

  See Shaft's Court. ...

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• butt-shaft

  , or butt-bolt An arrow without a barb, used for shooting at a butt. ...

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• crank-shaft

  In a steamer. (See intermediate shaft.) ...

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• intermediate shaft

  In a steamer, is the iron crank common to both engines. ...

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• main-shaft

  The principal shaft in machinery. ...

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• paddle-shaft

  The stout iron axis carrying the paddle-wheels, which revolves with them when keyed. ...

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• weigh-shaft

  In the marine-engine, the same as wiper-shaft. ...

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• wiper-shaft

  An application to the valve equipoise of a marine-engine: their journals or bearings lie in bushes, ...

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• Monkey-bread

  ·noun The fruit of the Adansonia digitata; also, the tree. ·see <<Adansonia>>. ...

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• Monkey-cup

  ·noun ·see <<Nepenthes>>. ...

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• Monkey-pot

  ·noun The fruit of two South American trees (Lecythis Ollaria, and L. Zabucajo), which have for thei...

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• Water monkey

  ·add. ·- A jar or bottle, as of porous earthenware, in which water is cooled by evaporation. ...

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• powder monkey

  A boy on board a ship of war, whose business is to fetch powder from the magazine. ...

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• monkey-bear

  or Monkey n. i.q. Native Bear. See Bear. 1853. C. St. Julian and E. K. Silvester, `TheProductions...

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• monkey-block

  A small single block strapped with a swivel. Also, those nailed on the topsail-yards of some merchan...

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• monkey-boat

  A half-decked boat above-bridge on the Thames. ...

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• monkey-jacket

  A warm jacket for night-watches, &c. ...

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• monkey-pump

  Straws or quills for sucking the liquid from a cask, through a gimlet-hole made for the purpose a pr...

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• monkey-spars

  Reduced masts and yards for a vessel devoted to the instruction and exercise of boys. ...

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• monkey-tail

  A lever for training a carronade. ...

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• powder-monkey

  Formerly the boy of the gun, who had charge of the cartridge; now powder-man. ...

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• bleeding the monkey

  The monkey is a tall pyramidal kid or bucket, which conveys the grog from the grog-tub to the mess s...

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• shaft of a mine

  The narrow perpendicular pit by which the gallery is entered, and from which the branches of the min...

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• suck the monkey, to

  To rob the grog-can. (See monkey.) ...

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