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shaftlike

shaftlike adjective: resembling or characteristic of a shaft.

Adjective

shaftlike (comparative more shaftlike, superlative most shaftlike)

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a shaft.
    • One particularly eye-catching shot is a heroic portrait of the stalwart men who built the Williamsburg next to one of its caissons, the shaftlike structures that permit construction under water.2007 June 8, Bridget L. Goodbody, “New York in All Its Nuts-and-Bolts Glory”, in New York Times

Forms of shaftlike

comparativemore shaftlike
superlativemost shaftlike

Origin of shaftlike

From shaft + -like.

Questions about shaftlike

What does shaftlike mean?
Shaftlike means resembling or characteristic of a shaft.
What part of speech is shaftlike?
Shaftlike is an adjective.

Words near shaftlike in the dictionary

  1. shaftiest
  2. shaftin'
  3. shafting
  4. shaftings
  5. shaftless
  6. shaftlike
  7. shaftman
  8. shaftmen
  9. shaftment
  10. shaftments
  11. shaftmond

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