shaft alley


nounNautical.
  1. an enclosure on a ship for housing a propeller shaft and a walk for oilers.

  • Also called shaft tunnel.

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How to use shaft alley in a sentence

  • Dan Hicks explained the situation and the just cause for drastic action which they held against the fugitive in the shaft alley.

    Captain Scraggs | Peter B. Kyne
  • Out of the shaft alley came Scraggs with a rush, tossing his wrench aside the better to climb the ladder.

    Captain Scraggs | Peter B. Kyne
  • He called a fireman and gave him some very explicit orders in German; whereupon the man disappeared in the shaft alley.

    Cappy Ricks Retires | Peter B. Kyne