arrow, shaft; beam, mast, girder; firing a shot; bare mountain top; spine, back

to make a shaft of an irrigation system

hinge, crack, split; shaft of a lance/spear

club, stick, bat, shaft; pool, pond

mine, quarry, shaft, pit

chief, boss, head of staff, manager, employer

stick, walking staff, walking stick, crutch

staff for measuring the water level in an irrigation well

club, mace, staff

chief-of-staff

moire, having and undulating appearance, pattern, or texture

desiring or aspiring to something

paternal, ancestral, that which is taken on or inherited from the family

putting a hot brick or something else on a sore spot

consensus, agreement; unanimous decision or opinion by theologians; assembly; congregation, council