Definitions
defeat someone through trickery or deceit
Word origin
From Middle English schaft, from Old English sċeaft, from Proto-West Germanic *skaft, from Proto-Germanic *skaftaz. Cognate with Dutch schacht, German Schaft, Danish, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål, Norwegian Nynorsk, and Swedish skaft.
Used in a sentence
“A shaft hath three principal parts, the stele, the feathers, and the head.”
“Her hand slipped off the javelin's shaft towards the spearpoint and that's why her score was lowered.”
“[…]and the Thunder, / Wing'd with red Lightning and impetuous rage, / Perhaps hath ſpent his ſhafts […]”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
Used as a crossword answer2 curated clues
01“Narrow vertical passage”5 letters
02“Long narrow rod”5 letters
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