Shaft and Well

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Shaft noun - A narrow sharply defined line of light radiating from an object.

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Well is a synonym for shaft in passage topic. In some cases you can use "Well" instead a noun "Shaft", when it comes to topics like valley, duct.

Nearby Word: shafting

Well noun - An open shaft through the floors of a building (as for a stairway).

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Shaft is a synonym for well in nature topic. You can use "Shaft" instead a noun "Well", if it concerns topics such as passage, valley, borehole, water hole.

Nearby Word: welled

old	old shaft	old well
full	full shaft	full well
short	short shaft	short well
complete	complete shaft	complete well
Other adjectives: original, endless, convenient, single, deep, simple, empty, strong, entire, large, bottomless, dangerous, little, dark, narrow, new, abandoned, hidden, underground, nearby.

Domitian and Nero seem to have gotten the shaft from Christian scholars, for example, while Constantine is very well thought of.

Source: Written by the Winners
In the movie The Ruins, as well as in the book, the protagonists are attacked by a sentient, carnivorous, and parasitic vine living on an ancient pyramid (or in a mine shaft, in the book).

Source: Sealed Evil in a Can
The Prince in the Sands of Time quadrilogy can employ the inverse of this trope as well: if two walls are far enough apart, he can Wall Jump down the shaft.

Source: Wall Jump

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