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dropshaft

dropshaft noun: a vertical shaft which objects can drop through.

Noun

dropshaft (plural dropshafts)

  1. A vertical shaft which objects can drop through.
    • Melas said that district engineers had located Deep Tunnel dropshafts that were near a portion of the freight tunnels and that they would drill, cut or blast through to the flooded areas "as soon as possible."1992 April 3, Gary Washburn, “Great Chicago Loop Flood cripples businesses”, in Chicago Tribune, archived from the original on 01 Jan 2023
    • The water flows from a large suitably fed tank into the dropshaft through a sharp-edged orifice, whose diameter (Do) is 100mm large.2006, Maurizio Brocchini, Filippo Trivellato, Vorticity and Turbulence Effects in Fluid Structure Interaction, WIT Press, →ISBN, page 161

Forms of dropshaft

pluraldropshafts
alternative formdrop shaft
alternative formdrop-shaft

Origin of dropshaft

Compound of drop + shaft.

Questions about dropshaft

What does dropshaft mean?
Dropshaft means a vertical shaft which objects can drop through.
What part of speech is dropshaft?
Dropshaft is a noun.
What is the plural of dropshaft?
The plural of dropshaft is dropshafts.

Words near dropshaft in the dictionary

  1. dropset
  2. dropsets
  3. dropsetted
  4. dropsetting
  5. dropsful
  6. dropshaft
  7. dropshafts
  8. dropship
  9. dropshipped
  10. dropshipper
  11. dropshippers

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