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Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—S

Shaft

I will make either a shaft or bolt of it. I will apply it to one use or another. The bolt was the crossbow arrow, the shaft was the arrow of the long-bow.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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