英语词汇“shafter”的意思、释义、用法解释及翻译-春雷网

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词汇	shafter
释义	Definition of shafter in English: shafter noun ˈʃɑːftə Australian, NZ historical A bullock used to pull a cart. the pole rose and, despite their great weight, hoisted the shafters completely off the ground Example sentencesExamples He yoked them to the waggon, the two shafters first. The team is a shafter and three pair of yoke oxen. It had started to snow and I could not see past the shafters. He had often noticed that the shafters had very short back chains. The light dray was powered by a single shafter. I was astonished to see our dray tipped up, with the two shafters hanging by the bows from the pole. He would lend us his shafter to bring up our load. Although our horses were perfectly able to convey our effects, our neighbour had a very stout shafter. The shafter threw his load off four times. He had yoked the yoke-bullocks and harnessed the shafter. Origin Early 19th century: from shaft in the sense 'either of a pair of poles that a draught animal is harnessed to'.
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