shaft

1. (obsolete) The entire body of a long weapon, such as an arrow.Examples: "A shaft hath three principal parts, the stele, the feathers, and the head."obsolete

2. (by extension) Anything cast or thrown as a spear or javelin.Examples: "[…]and the Thunder, / Wing'd with red Lightning and impetuous rage, / Perhaps hath ſpent his ſhafts […]"; "The correction of theſe will reſtore its proper dignity to the ſtudy of antiquities, and cauſe the ſhafts of ridicule, which have been ſucceſsfully thrown at it, to recoil."broadly

3. Any long thin object, such as the handle of a tool.Examples: "Sarah, if you wear gloves your hands might not slip on your shaft and you can up your game, girl!"

4. (literary) A beam or ray of light.Examples: "Isn't that shaft of light from that opening in the cave beautiful?"; "They were a fine company of old women, and a Dutch painter would have loved to find them there together, where the sun made bright patches on the floor and sent long, quivering shafts of gold through the dusky shade up among the rafters."literary

5. (architecture) Any column or pillar, particularly the body of a column between its capital and pedestal.Examples: "Spirit, that made those heroes dare / To die, or leave their children free / Bid Time and Nature gently spare / The shaft we raise to thee."

6. (anatomy) The main cylindrical part of the penis.Examples: "The female labia minora is homologous to the penis shaft skin of males."