Chalk mines were accessed by a vertical shaft which creates dangerous conditions for sinkholes.
It's all shaft — which he has made an object of propulsion and energy.
BMW's new 1.5-liter triple has a balance shaft, which consumes power and adds weight.
The shaft, which is eight lower diameters high, has 24 flutes.
Knowles entered with two Supremes-ish backup singers to the "Theme From Shaft," which was too cruise ship by half.
That may be why he was cast as a villain in John Singleton's version of "Shaft," which opened on Friday.
Below this is a long shaft, which is swathed in a quantity of painted tapa and terminates in a phallus.
The outsize theatricality of his work in "Shaft," which suggests a hybrid of vaudeville and opera, gives way to a cerebral approach to playing the young King.
The album starts with Mr. Hayes's barely updated remake of his old "Theme From 'Shaft,' " which still places its masticating wah-wah guitar against an orchestra.
The straight, narrow blade is mounted vertically between a pulsating lower shaft and a reciprocating upper shaft, which together move the blade rapidly up and down.
And that wheel's "rotation was alternately blocked and released by projections (pallets) on the verge shaft, which was set perpendicular to the wheel".
