Definitions
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- adjective Resembling or characteristic of a
shaft .
Etymologies
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Examples
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But when a pyramid surmounts a shaftlike column like a tower, it becomes something more again: it becomes an obelisk.
Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006
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But when a pyramid surmounts a shaftlike column like a tower, it becomes something more again: it becomes an obelisk.
Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006
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But when a pyramid surmounts a shaftlike column like a tower, it becomes something more again: it becomes an obelisk.
Seven Deadly Wonders Matthew Reilly 2006
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I saw only the bare rounded sides of a small shaftlike tunnel and I laughed nervously.
People of the Dark Howard, Robert E. 2005
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Investigating this flow of water, he found that its source was the shaftlike excavation, which was apparently full of water almost to the level of the road.
Natives of Space Clement, Hal 1965
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By so doing he placed himself high on my list of benefactors; for that little shaftlike implement, magnified by my lively appreciation, became as the very axis of the earth.
A Mind That Found Itself An Autobiography Clifford Whittingham Beers 1909
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By so doing he placed himself high on my list of benefactors; for that little shaftlike implement, magnified by my lively appreciation, became as the very axis of the earth.
A Mind That Found Itself Beers, Clifford W. 1908
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