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Definition of shaftment in English English dictionary
- A unit of length, 6 - 6½ inches or 2 palms, i.e. 15.24 cm, the width of the fist and outstretched thumb of a standard archer
The shaftment is the width of the palm and the outstretched thumb.
- Quality or state of being shady
- One who, or that which, shades
- in a picture or a drawing
- A machine, resembling a well sweep, used in Egypt for raising water from the Nile for irrigation
- A measure of about six inches
- In a shady manner
- That filling up which represents the effect of more or less darkness, expressing rotundity, projection, etc
- Being without shade; not shaded
- Full of shade; shady
- Shade within defined limits; obscurity or deprivation of light, apparent on a surface, and representin
- Act or process of making a shade
- A shaftment
- shathmont