shafted

as inmislead
as inplay dirty
as inshortchange
as inswindle
as inwelsh
as incheat
as indefraud
as indupe
as infleece
as inflimflam

Synonyms for shafted

verb give someone the wrong idea, information

Antonyms for shafted

Word Origin & History

Old English sceaft "long, slender rod, staff, pole; spear-shaft; spear," from Proto-Germanic *skaftaz (cf. Old Norse skapt, Old Saxon skaft, Old High German scaft, German schaft, Dutch schacht, not found in Gothic), which some connect with a Germanic passive past participle of PIE root *(s)kep- "to cut, to scrape" (cf. Old English scafan "to shave, scrape, polish") on notion of "tree branch stripped of its bark." But cf. Latin scapus "shaft, stem, shank," Greek skeptron "a staff" (see scepter) which appear to be cognates.

Meaning "beam or ray" (of light, etc.) is attested from c.1300. Sense of "an arrow" is from c.1400; that of "a handle" from 1520s. Mechanical sense is from 1680s. Vulgar slang meaning "penis" first recorded 1719 on notion of "columnar part" (late 14c.); hence probably shaft (v.) and the related noun sense "act of unfair treatment" (1959), though some early sources insist this is from the notion of a "wound."

Example Sentences for shafted

The vein averages five feet, runs northeast and southwest, and has been shafted through ore to the depth of 180 feet.

At each angle of the crossing are masses of shafted piers, connected by wide and lofty rounded arches.

White at the summit, black at the base, the shafted rocks rear splintered pinnacles, slanting like channel buoys.

The scene is shifting, the stage is dark'ning—a strange eclipse obscures the shafted light!

There were simple round-arched, shafted windows in each bay, and the clerestory was finished like the aisle with a corbel-table.

The windows here are capital examples of shafted windows of the end of the twelfth century.

In the brave March sunlight which shafted down on her, her head looked more like a Botticelli angel's than ever.

Le Borgne shifts his spread feet, mutters a guttural grunt, and puffs out his torch; but the shafted flame reveals his shadow.

When I awakened, the forest was a labyrinth of shafted moonlight and sombre shadows.

Its arches rest on four shafted columns, somewhat Gothic in character, and crowned with capitals distinctly Turkish.