"counter shaft" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "countershaft"
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          "ref": "1950 July, “Diesel Train Services for G.N.R.(I.)”, in Railway Magazine, page 490:",
          "text": "The drive from the engine is taken through a fluid flywheel and universally jointed shaft to the counter-shaft and thence to a five-speed preselective type epicyclic gearbox by another shaft.",
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        }
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        "Alternative form of countershaft."
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  "word": "counter shaft"
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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "counter shafts",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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    }
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "word": "countershaft"
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        {
          "ref": "1950 July, “Diesel Train Services for G.N.R.(I.)”, in Railway Magazine, page 490:",
          "text": "The drive from the engine is taken through a fluid flywheel and universally jointed shaft to the counter-shaft and thence to a five-speed preselective type epicyclic gearbox by another shaft.",
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        }
      ],
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  "word": "counter shaft"
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