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- noun Alternative form of
line shaft .
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Examples
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For example, maybe apartment buildings could have had central steam engines and used lineshafts (like those used in factories) to deliver power to individual apartment ... washing machines, etc could have been belt-driven off of the lineshaft.
Electric Liberation, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009
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These high-speed, line-oriented machines were often originally designed with a main lineshaft to synchronize complex mechanical motion.
All DN headlines 2009
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