shaftie
shaftie is the alternative form of shafty.
Meaning of shafty
Noun
shafty (plural shafties)
- A bicycle that uses a driveshaft instead of a chain to transmit power from the pedals to the wheel.
- At the rear, you'll find a single, centrally mounted shock, the now-familiar single-sided swingarm and BMW's Paralever shaft-drive system, which does away with most of a shafty's chassis-jacking bugaboos.1994, Cycle World Magazine, volume 33, number 1, page 49
Forms of shaftie
| plural | shafties |
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Origin of shaftie
From shaft + -ie.
Questions about shaftie
- What is shaftie the alternative form of?
- Shaftie is the alternative form of shafty.
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Adapted from Wiktionary: shaftie (page history and authors); shafty (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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