weigh-shaft

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• Weigh

  ·vi To have weight; to be heavy. II. Weigh ·vi To bear heavily; to press hard. III. Weigh ·vt To p...

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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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• Weigh-house

  ·noun A building at or within which goods, and the like, are weighed. ...

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• Weigh-houses

  ·pl of Weigh-house. ...

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• a-weigh

  The anchor being a-trip, or after breaking out of the ground. ...

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• weigh, to

  [from the Anglo-Saxon woeg]. To move or carry. Applied to heaving up the anchor of a ship about to s...

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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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• monkey-shaft

  n. «A shaft rising from a lowerto a higher level (as a rule perpendicularly), and differingfrom a b...

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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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• wiper-shaft

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

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• King's Weigh House

  See Weigh House, Eastcheap. ...

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• The Weigh House, Eastcheap

  On the south side of Little Eastcheap, between Botolph Lane and Love Lane (O. and M. 1677-O.S. 1880)...

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• Weigh House, Cornhill

  On the north side of Cornhill, for weighing merchandize at the king's beam (S.193). A master and Po...

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• Weigh House Yard, Cornhill

  See Sun Court, Cornhill. ...

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• Weigh House Yard, Eastcheap

  East out of Botolph Lane to Love Lane (O. and M. 1677-O.S. 1880). In Billingsgate Ward. Removed for...

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• heave and a-weigh

  Signifies that the next effort will start the anchor from its bed, and make it a-trip. "Heave and a-...

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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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