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af⋅ter⋅shaft

  [af-ter-shaft, ahf-ter-shahft]
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–noun Ornithology.
1. a supplementary feather, usually small, arising from the underside of the base of the shafts of certain feathers in many birds.
2. the shaft of such a feather.
Origin:
1865–70; after + shaft

Related forms:
af⋅ter⋅shaft⋅ed, adjective
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aftershaft

noun
a supplementary feather (usually small) on the underside of the base of the shaft of some feathers in some birds 
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