Feeling that I had been pushed beyond the limits of my strength, I collapsed onto a cart shaft.

Loaves of salt were so valuable then that they served as currency, and, local lore says, many a smuggler prospered by hiding the stuff in hollow cart shafts and in double-bottomed casks.

It is generally used for making ornamental furniture, house posts, beams, scantlings, planks, dugout canoes, boats, tea boxes, cart shafts, axles, yokes, well-curbs, agricultural implements, combs, gun stocks, naves, spokes, etc.

He set it on one of the uptilted cart shafts.

Meanwhile, Rowanoak harnessed herself to the cart shafts.

As he turned to go, his eyes fell on the hacked-off cart shaft lying on the straw-strewn floor.

Her goggling eyes were almost ready to pop out of their sockets and her neck was as thin and long as a cart shaft.

Alessan hesitated a moment longer, his eyes straying from Pollen to the men waiting outside with saddled runners and the beast in the cart shafts.

She was scowling so hard that a passing farmer, who was poking his ox with a stick, trying to make the animal lumber faster, peered over his shoulder at her as though he feared that gaze might turn on him any moment and maybe kill his ox in the cart shafts.