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shafter

shafter noun: one who or that which shafts.

Noun

shafter (plural shafters)

  1. One who or that which shafts.
    • Sources of information would have to be kept confidential (it isn't necessary to know who got shafted in order to learn that a shafter exists).1986, The Comics Journal, numbers 108-110, page 41

Proper noun capitalized: Shafter

Shafter

  1. A surname.
  2. A city in Kern County, California.
  3. An unincorporated community in Fayette County, Illinois.
  4. An unincorporated community in Linn County, Missouri.
  5. A ghost town in Presidio County, Texas.

Forms of shafter

pluralshafters

Origin of shafter

From shaft + -er.

Questions about shafter

What does shafter mean?
Shafter means one who or that which shafts.
What part of speech is shafter?
Shafter can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of shafter?
The plural of shafter is shafters.

Words near shafter in the dictionary

  1. shaft encoders
  2. shaft furnace
  3. shaft furnaces
  4. shaft horsepower
  5. shafted
  6. shafter
  7. shafters
  8. Shaftesburian
  9. Shaftesbury
  10. Shaftesburyan
  11. shafthead frame

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