shaft
noun
a long pole forming the body of various weapons, as lances, halberds, or arrows.
shaftless
-
a word derived from
shaft.
Example Sentences
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And now an old woman came into the field, and began to dig with a blunt shaftless knife round the root of the dandelion plant, and pulled it up out of the ground.
From What the Moon Saw: and Other Tales by H. W. (Henry William) Dulcken
Flock wise following chosen leaders, Like the shaftless heads of arrows Southward cleaving through the ether, Soon the wild geese followed after.
From Legends of the Northwest by Hanford Lennox Gordon
Outside there is a shaftless cross of Celtic appearance, but not supposed to be Celtic in origin, though it certainly may have been adapted from a Celtic original.
From The Cornwall Coast by Arthur L. (Arthur Leslie) Salmon
Within a short time, the entire body of Bhishma became shaftless and soreless.
From The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa, Volume 4 Books 13, 14, 15, 16, 17 and 18 by Kisari Mohan Ganguli
This in itself might have been of small avail to me, but over its white face was marked a long thin V, which shot swiftly across like a shaftless arrow.
From Uncle Bernac A Memory of the Empire by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
