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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In a screw steamer, a passageway along the shaft as far aft as the stern tubing, affording an opportunity for thorough examination of the shaft and its bearings: known in the United States as shaft-alley. Also
shaft-tunnel .
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Notwithstanding my age, I was so curious to see an ironclad that I went all over the "Resistance," even to the engine-room and screw-alley.
Personal Recollections, from Early Life to Old Age, of Mary Somerville Mary Somerville 1826
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