shafting
present participle ofshaft
shaft
verb[T]
informaluk/ʃɑːft/us/ʃæft/tocheatortricksomeone, or totreatsomeoneunfairly:
She was shafted by heragentover thefilmrightsto herbook.
Cheating & tricking
- anti-fraud
- bad faith
- bamboozle
- bilk
- blackmail
- bluff
- fiddle
- have an eye to/for the main chanceidiom
- havesomeoneon
- hoax
- hocus-pocus
- honeyfuggle
- hustle
- pull the wool oversomeone'seyesidiom
- punk
- put one over onsomeoneidiom
- putsomethingacross/oversomeone
- putsomethingon
- racket
- snooker
Examplesofshafting
shafting
In English, many past and present participles of verbs can be used as adjectives. Some of these examples may show the adjective use.
As these specialised machines were normally both stationary and operated inside buildings, prime movers could supply power viashaftingor belts.
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In general, components such asshafting, pulleys, flywheels or belts which might cause injury must be guarded.
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I remember, a lad of only 16, going round ashafting.
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Shaftinghas been put up about half a dozen times and taken down.
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Should not theshaftinghave been properly fenced in before the accident and not after?
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There is little doubt that it was largely as a result of this action that the number of accidents due to unfencedshaftingwas reduced.
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There were cases in which the particularshaftingwas quite safe, until any employé was injured thereby.
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Among the things which are frequently responsible for accidents are power takeoff shafts, chain, belt and gear drives, belts and pulleys,shafting, circular saws, stationary engines and electrical equipment.
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Shafting, pulleys, belts, flywheels and similar machinery will have to have guards of adequate strength unless these components are safely positioned out of the way of workers.
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I understand that the victim of this accident had climbed up to some unfenced overheadshaftingin order to mount a belt, and got carried round the shaft.
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Under this system, you save the weight of the propeller and theshaftingand so on, but you have to carry a large amount of additional fuel.
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In the same way the standing machinery, all theshaftingand all the main structural fixtures of the manufactory will be part of the rateable value.
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For example, there will be an independent majority, but a publicly-owned minority, in the following products: bright steel bars, steel shaftings, steel forgings, wire, wrought iron, and iron castings.
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In the 19th century, the flywheels were powered by leather drive belts attached to lineshafting, which in turn ran to a steam plant.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Theshaftingfor the machinery was under the floor, as was a tramway for trucks to remove the cutting waste.
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- press-ganging
- press-ganging
- press-home-advantage
- press home your advantage
- press-home-your-advantage
- pressing
- pressing button
- pressing concern
- pressing demand
- pressing importance
- pressing issue
- pressing need
- pressing problem
- pressing question
- pressing task
- press-into-service
- press kit
- press-kit
- press office
- press-office
- press officer
- press-officer
- press-on
- press on/ahead
- press-on-ahead