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lineshaft

lineshaft is the alternative form of line shaft.

Meaning of line shaft

Noun

line shaft (plural line shafts)

  1. An early power transmission system used extensively during the Industrial Revolution, with a single central power source distributing power to all of the machinery in a building.

Forms of lineshaft

plurallineshafts

Questions about lineshaft

What is lineshaft the alternative form of?
Lineshaft is the alternative form of line shaft.

Words near lineshaft in the dictionary

  1. lines-of-sight
  2. linescan
  3. linescans
  4. linescore
  5. linescores
  6. lineshaft
  7. lineshafting
  8. lineshafts
  9. lineshape
  10. lineshapes
  11. lineside

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lineshaft (page history and authors); line shaft (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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