Definitions for "Shafts"
A pair of poles that fit on either side of a horse in a single harness.
( Limbers or Tills). A pair of curved or straight bars, attached to the body of the vehicle, in which a single horse might be harnessed for draught purposes. Some farm wagons in the eastern counties, however, fitted double shafts to their wagons.
Keywords:  went, noun, mines, passages, clear
(Noun) Passages that went up and down, in mines, if they went clear to the surface