Long Narrow Rigid Bodies
- A cylindrical, usually solid metal object which commonly goes through and holds other rotating items (e.g. pulleys, wheels, gears, bearings, sleeves) and which may also transmit rotational forces.
- Axle, a shaft around which one or more wheels rotate
- Drive shaft, a shaft for transferring torque
- Line shaft, a power transmission system
- Shaft (golf), the long, tapered tube which connects the golfer’s hands to the club head
- Staff (stick), various applications
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Famous quotes containing the words long, narrow, rigid and/or bodies:
“My glass shall not persuade me I am old
So long as youth and thou are of one date,
But when in thee time’s furrows I behold,
Then look I death my days should expiate.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
“There is room in the halls of pleasure
For a large and lordly train,
But one by one we must all file on
Through the narrow aisles of pain.”
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“It’s fairly obvious that American education is a cultural flop. Americans are not a well-educated people culturally, and their vocational education often has to be learned all over again after they leave school and college. On the other hand, they have open quick minds and if their education has little sharp positive value, it has not the stultifying effects of a more rigid training.”
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“Bodies of holy men and women exude
Miraculous oil, odour of violet.
But under heavy loads of trampled clay
Lie bodies of the vampires full of blood;
Their shrouds are bloody and their lips are wet.”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)