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mainshafts

mainshafts is the plural 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.

Questions about mainshafts

What is mainshafts the plural of?
Mainshafts is the plural of mainshaft.

Words near mainshafts in the dictionary

  1. mains'ls
  2. mainsail
  3. mainsails
  4. mainsborne
  5. mainshaft
  6. mainshafts
  7. mainsheet
  8. mainsheets
  9. mainshock
  10. mainshocks
  11. mainsleaze

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