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view shaft

view shaft is the alternative form of viewshaft.

Meaning of viewshaft

Noun

viewshaft (plural viewshafts)

  1. A gap between buildings or other visual obstructions that allows a view of something scenic.
    • Enthusiastically adopted by city planners, the viewshafts have survived a quarter-century of growth. Plenty of developers have cursed Turner’s viewshafts but few have challenged them.2002 November 16, Geoff Cumming, “Showdown over city’s volcano zones”, in The New Zealand Herald

Forms of view shaft

pluralview shafts

Questions about view shaft

What is view shaft the alternative form of?
View shaft is the alternative form of viewshaft.

Words near view shaft in the dictionary

  1. View Park-Windsor Hills
  2. view plane
  3. view planes
  4. view point
  5. view points
  6. view shaft
  7. view shafts
  8. view someone's etchings
  9. view'd
  10. view't
  11. view-point

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