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:
“O Russia! O my wife! Our long and narrow Road lies clear though distressed.
Our road with an old Tatar freedom’s arrow Has deeply pierced our breast.”
—Alexander Blok (1880–1921)
“She has not grown uncivil
As narrow natures would
And called the pleasures evil
Happier days thought good....”
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)
“Success makes men rigid and they tend to exalt stability over all the other virtues; tired of the effort of willing they become fanatics about conservatism.”
—Walter Lippmann (1889–1974)
“Our souls belong to our bodies, not our bodies to our souls.”
—Herman Melville (1819–1891)