Sentence examples for on a shaft from inspiring English sources

Ripping, or edging, is the removal of wane (edge areas with bark or some missing wood) from the sides of boards, frequently done by passing the board through a machine that has two small circular saw blades mounted on a shaft; one blade is stationary and the other can be moved sideways to set board width.

A construction worker on Crossrail has been killed while working on a shaft in central London.

A circular saw consists of a circular blade having teeth on its periphery and mounted on a shaft.

The rotary plow's essential feature is a set of knives or tines rotated on a shaft by a power source.

Work on a shaft being drilled down into the mine to test air quality was progressing, Mr. Knowles said, and could be completed overnight.

A wheel and axle is made up of a circular frame (the wheel) that revolves on a shaft or rod (the axle).

Mac OS X users have always gotten a bit of a shaft on decent Bit Torrent clients.

Haakon and his men die in battle, and they see the valkyrie Göndul leaning on a spear shaft.

Work began on digging a shaft for the experiment when J. M. B. Kellogg convinced them to use a nuclear reactor instead of a bomb.

The analysis is restricted to that of the Laval rotor (one disk on an elastic shaft).

Mr. Oglesby recalled a photograph from the 1890s of a miner sinking a shaft on a vacant lot next to a downtown bank.