hafts's Usage Examples:

We find the flywheel is too heavy for SX and Li type crankshafts as the taper is thin and tends to shear or spin.

Near the top and bottom of hoisting shafts the tracks are usually graded to permit the cars to be run to and from the shaft by gravity.

The shafts are turned by the pull of the magnet upon the coils, and the motions of the transmitting pencil are thus reproduced.

They rotate on steel shafts 21 in.

By way of reprisals for the Hussite outrages in Prague, the miners of Kuttenberg seized on any Hussites they could find, and burned, beheaded or threw them alive into the shafts of disused mines.

In deep shafts hoisting speeds of 3000 or 3500 ft.

This and the third are much longer and fuse together at their upper and distal ends, leaving as a rule a space between the shafts.

Introduction The roller chain is used to transmit motion between rotating shafts via sprockets mounted on the shafts.

broad; it has vertical shafts at intervals, and a sluice chamber at its egress from the lake.

The shafts are placed so close together that in many instances they are divided by only a couple of feet of solid ground, but at their bases a considerable amount of gallery work has been excavated, though it is possible that this was done by miners who came after the people who originally sank the shafts.

Each coil is attached to a shaft by a bell crank arrangement, and to these shafts there is secured a system of levers similar to that at the transmitter carrying the receiving pencil at the junction.

Synonyms:

file, handgrip, grip, brand, axe, knife, awl, handle, sickle, ax, reaping hook, dagger, steel, reap hook, hold, helve, sword, blade, sticker,

Antonyms:

lose, disagree, enable, deny, derestrict,