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main shaft

main shaft is the alternative form of mainshaft.

Meaning of mainshaft

Noun

mainshaft (plural mainshafts)

  1. the principal shaft of a motor
  2. The primary shaft of an arrow into which the foreshaft containing the arrowhead is inserted.

Forms of main shaft

pluralmain shafts

Questions about main shaft

What is main shaft the alternative form of?
Main shaft is the alternative form of mainshaft.

Words near main shaft in the dictionary

  1. Main Ridge
  2. main road
  3. main roads
  4. main sequence
  5. main sequences
  6. main shaft
  7. main sheet
  8. main sheets
  9. main signal
  10. main signals
  11. main stage

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Adapted from Wiktionary: main shaft (page history and authors); mainshaft (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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