Слово "shaft". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

The old man carried the mast on his shoulder and the boy carried the wooden boat with the coiled, hard-braided brown lines, the gaff and the harpoon with its shaft.

The shaft struck home.

"Ah..." said Harry uncertainly. "And if anyone asks me why fifth years and above got shafted?

Your good shaft is in the sea:

In this were the shaft of a pick broken in two and the boards of several packing-cases strewn around.

The old man carried the mast on his shoulder and the boy carried the wooden boat with the coiled, hard-braided brown lines, the gaff and the harpoon with its shaft.

Holding it far down the shaft, he reaches up from his sitting position and hooks the handle over the top of his jacket.

A great chocolate-coloured pall lowered over heaven, but the wind was continually charging and routing these embattled vapours; so that as the cab crawled from street to street, Mr. Utterson beheld a marvelous number of degrees and hues of twilight; for here it would be dark like the back-end of evening; and there would be a glow of a rich, lurid brown, like the light of some strange conflagration; and here, for a moment, the fog would be quite broken up, and a haggard shaft of daylight would glance in between the swirling wreaths.

Fierce shafts of color streaked through the thin atmosphere beneath them.

Shafts of delicious sunlight struck down onto the forest floor and overhead you could see a blue sky between the tree tops.

Now, as old Rouault would soon be forced to sell twenty-two acres of “his property,” as he owed a good deal to the mason, to the harness-maker, and as the shaft of the cider-press wanted renewing,

A shaft of light shot upward from the steel, and I felt as if a long, thin blade transfixed my forehead.

Normally, a person could peer through a cylinder seal’s hollow center, as if through a section of empty pipe, but in this case, the shaft was blocked.

Note my profile in the moonlight.' The cat got into the shaft of moonlight and wanted to add something else, but on being asked to keep silent, replied: 'Very well, very well, I'm prepared to be silent.

there's a shaft of nerves that joins the two halves of the brain

Note my profile in the moonlight.' The cat got into the shaft of moonlight and wanted to add something else, but on being asked to keep silent, replied: 'Very well, very well, I'm prepared to be silent.

456 I asked Marvin Breed if he’d known Emily Hoenikker, the wife of Felix; the mother of Angela, Frank, and Newt; the woman under that monstrous shaft.

The handle turned, the door unclosed, and passing through and curtseying low, I looked up at—a black pillar!—such, at least, appeared to me, at first sight, the straight, narrow, sable-clad shape standing erect on the rug: the grim face at the top was like a carved mask, placed above the shaft by way of capital.

There lay Boxer, between the shafts of the cart, his neck stretched out, unable even to raise his head.

She was between the shafts of a smart dogcart painted red and black, which was standing outside a public-house.

There was a big empty twowheeled cart, the shafts tipped high up in the rain.

They had come to what looked like a chimney shaft of brick, stretching down from the roof of the dungeon to the floor.

I’ll come back to you if I can, Marty, but I feel like a man standing at the mouth of an old mine-shaft that is full of cave-ins waiting to happen, standing there and saying goodbye to the daylight.

On each landing, opposite the lift-shaft, the poster with the enormous face gazed from the wall.

When she was wondering whether the strain would ever cease, a dull-sounding bell clanged somewhere down an elevator shaft, and the end came.

She was between the shafts of a smart dogcart painted red and black, which was standing outside a public-house.