shaft

The entire body of a long weapon, such as an arrow.

A shaft hath three principal parts, the stele, the feathers, and the head.

The long, narrow, central body of a spear, arrow, or javelin.

Her hand slipped off the javelin's shaft towards the spearpoint and that's why her score was lowered.

Orion hit a rabbit once; but though sore wounded it got to the bury, and, struggling in, the arrow caught the side of the hole and was drawn out.[…]. Ikey the blacksmith had forged us a spearhead after a sketch from a picture of a Greek warrior; and a rake-handle served as a shaft.

Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin.

[…]and the Thunder, / Wing'd with red Lightning and impetuous rage, / Perhaps hath ſpent his ſhafts […]

The correction of theſe will reſtore its proper dignity to the ſtudy of antiquities, and cauſe the ſhafts of ridicule, which have been ſucceſsfully thrown at it, to recoil.

Any long thin object, such as the handle of a tool.

While Kitto chatted to William, Jessamy looked with interest at the dog cart. It had a pair of high wooden wheels with two seats back to back above. Between the shafts the bay mare tossed her head and fidgeted on the cobbles.

Any long thin object, such as the handle of a tool.

Turbines have been around for a long time—windmills and water wheels are early examples. The name comes from the Latin turbo, meaning vortex, and thus the defining property of a turbine is that a fluid or gas turns the blades of a rotor, which is attached to a shaft that can perform useful work.

To fuck over; to cause harm to, especially through deceit or treachery.

Your boss really shafted you by stealing your idea like that.

Who can I trust after repeatedly being shafted

To equip with a shaft.

To fuck; to have sexual intercourse with.

Turns out my roommate was shafting my girlfriend.

Which grotesque auld hing-oot will the shrivelled post-menopausal slag want tae shaft? Stay tuned.