shaft
noun
a long pole forming the body of various weapons, as lances, halberds, or arrows.
was shafting
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past progressiveof shaft.past progressive
Used to describe an ongoing action or continuous state that was happening at a specific time in the past.
Example Sentences
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I could not see that unknown light-beam from Greater New York; it was shafting out now in the other direction, so that the Earth hid it from me.
From Wandl the Invader by Ray Cummings
