• lift shaft

Fromlift(“vertical transport,elevator”) +shaft, fromOld Englishsceaft, fromProto-Germanic*skaftaz.

• Rhymes:-ɑːft

liftshaft (pluralliftshafts)

1. (UK) The verticalshaft in a building which contains alift (elevator) platform or cab, and through which it is moved from floor to floor.

• elevator shaft

• shaft
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