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Shaft can refer to:

In fiction:

• 1971 novel by Ernest Tidyman about an African-American private detective
  • Shaft (1971 film), a film based on the novel
    • Shaft (album), the soundtrack for the film, recorded by Isaac Hayes
    • "Theme from Shaft", performed by Isaac Hayes
  • Shaft's Big Score, the second film in the trilogy
  • Shaft in Africa, the third film in the trilogy
  • Shaft (2000 film), a sequel of the 1971 film, released in 2000
  • Shaft (television), a series of TV movies
  • John Shaft, the title character of the above films
• Shaft (Castlevania), the dark priest from the Castlevania video game series
• Shaft (comics), a Marvel Comics ninja character
• Shaft (youngblood), a comic book character
• DriveShaft, a fictional rock band in the TV series Lost
• a weapon in the Quake video game series

Music:

• Shaft (band), a dance music act which had a 1999 hit with a cover/remix of (Mucho Mambo) Sway
• Shaft (New Zealand band), a New Zealand indie band
• Shaft (club), a blues and jazz club in Istanbul, Turkey

Places:

• Shaft County, an administrative division of Gīlān Province in Iran
• Shaft, Iran, the capital of Shaft County

Enclosed spaces:

• Elevator shaft
• Ventilation shaft
• Pitch (vertical space), a significant underground vertical space in caving terminology
• Shaft mining
• Shafting, illict travelling through shafts

Rotating devices:

• Axle, a central (usually non-rotating) shaft around which a wheel or gear or similar device rotates
• Spindle, a central (usually rotating) shaft, to which a wheel or gear or similar device may be attached
• Driveshaft, a shaft for transferring power

Other:

• the poles or sticks attached to a wagon or other animal-drawn vehicle that are the link between the harnessed animal and the vehicle.
• the shaft of a pole weapon
• the main structural element of an arrow
• the part of a golf club (equipment) between the head and the grip
• an architectural column's long cylindrical section
• the height of a boot
• part of a loom
• a slang word for a penis
• Shaft (company), a Japanese animation company

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