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- adjective Without a
shaft .
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Examples
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A sliver of warm brown down the fringe and, conclusively, a shaftless little feather boa sprouting from the base identified the owner as a game bird.
Country diary 2010
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Are you close to getting the idea of my shaftless gyrations.
Step back from the hairbrush or I’ll shoot « BuzzMachine 2008
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One of our picks was actually a special shaftless key with adjustable cuts for opening the smaller locks in the wooden doors.
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To overcome this problem we decided to make a special shaftless key that could be jiggled up and down and would thus not be limited in the amount the cuts could lift the levers.
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Outside there is a shaftless cross of Celtic appearance, but not supposed to be Celtic in origin, though it certainly may have been adapted from a Celtic original.
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Within a short time, the entire body of Bhishma became shaftless and soreless.
The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 Kisari Mohan [Translator] Ganguli
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Down the rocky road went the flying host, with 'their shaftless, broken bows' closely followed by the avenging foe with 'red pursuing spear.'
Expositions of Holy Scripture Second Kings Chapters VIII to End and Chronicles, Ezra, and Nehemiah. Esther, Job, Proverbs, and Ecclesiastes Alexander Maclaren 1868
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In the present instance his irony was shaftless, being understood.
The Free Lances A Romance of the Mexican Valley Mayne Reid 1850
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And now an old woman came into the field, and began to dig with a blunt shaftless knife round the root of the dandelion plant, and pulled it up out of the ground.
What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales Alfred Walter Bayes 1840
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The flying Mede, his shaftless broken bow -- [fz] [196]
The Works of Lord Byron. Vol. 2 George Gordon Byron Byron 1806
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