Air Shaft

Definition: Air Shaft

Air Shaft

Noun

1. A shaft for ventilation.

Domain	Definition
Mining	A shaft used wholly or mainly for ventilating mines, for bringing fresh air to places where miners are working, or for exhausting used air. It may be used as an intake (downcast) shaft or a return (upcast) shaft.See also:downcast; upcast. Syn:air pit. (references)
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Synonym: Air Shaft

Synonym: air well (n). (additional references)

Crosswords: Air Shaft

English words defined with "air shaft": Plumming. (references)

Thumbnail	Description & Credit
	Remains of an old air shaft at an abandoned iron mine. Mansfield, Michigan. Credit: Library of Congress.
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The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Language		Translations for "air shaft"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		pus ajrimi. (various references)

Bulgarian		вентилационна шахта (airway, downcast, upcast). (various references)

Czech		vìtrná jáma. (various references)

German		Wetterschacht. (various references)

Greek		φρεάτιο εξαερισμού (overflow), αεραγωγόσ σωλήνασ. (various references)

Hungarian		világítóudvar (air well), szellõzõakna. (various references)

Manx		towl aer (air hole, ventilating shaft). (various references)

Pig Latin		airay aftshay.(various references)

Romanian		galerie de ventilaţie. (various references)

Russian		вентиляционная шахта (airshaft, air-shaft, by-pit). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		otvor za dovod vazduha u rudnike. (various references)

Spanish		pozo de ventilación. (various references)

Swedish		ventilationstrumma. (various references)

Turkish		aydınlık (airway, bright, brightly, clear, daylight, enlightenment, high speed, illumination, light, light-well, luminous, radiance, skylight, sunlit, sunny), hava bacası (airway, shaft, upcast, upcast shaft, uptake). (various references)

Ukrainian		вентиляційна шахта. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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	Words within the letters "a-a-f-h-i-r-s-t"
	-1 letter: ratfish.
	-2 letters: afrits, airths, arhats, arista, faiths, firths, friths, riatas, safari, sharif, shrift, tafias, tarsia, tiaras.
	-3 letters: afars, afrit, airth, airts, arhat, arias, astir, atria, fairs, faith, fiars, fiats, first, firth, frats, frith, frits, haafs, haars, hafis, hafts, hairs, harts, rafts, raias, riata, rifts, saith, shaft, shift, shirt, sitar, stair, stria, tafia, tahrs.
	-4 letters: aahs.
	-5 letters: aah.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-f-h-i-r-s-t"
	+3 letters: handicrafts.
	+4 letters: farthingales.
	+5 letters: craftsmanship, draftsmanship, featherbrains, handicrafters.
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Expression	Frequency per Day
air shaft	18
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Air Shaft

Definition: Air Shaft

Air Shaft

Noun

Specialty Definition: Air Shaft

Mining

Synonym: Air Shaft

Crosswords: Air Shaft

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Air Shaft

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Modern Translation: Air Shaft

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Anagrams: Air Shaft

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