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Shifter   Listen
noun
Shifter  n.  
1.
One who, or that which, shifts; one who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener. "'T was such a shifter that, if truth were known, Death was half glad when he had got him down."
2.
(Naut.) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.
3.
(Mach.)
(a)
An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.
(b)
(Knitting Mach.) A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.
4.
(construction, tunneling) A foreman responsible for the work on one shift in one area, as in one heading (4).





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"Shifter" Quotes from Famous Books



... through all the veins of the spring. The circle of mountains which bounds the valley is covered with white from top to toe, but two hours of sunshine would melt the snow away. The snow itself is but a new caprice, a simple stage decoration ready to disappear at the signal of the scene-shifter. ...
— Amiel's Journal • Mrs. Humphry Ward


Words linked to "Shifter" :   stage technician, gear lever, shift, stagehand, gearstick, motor vehicle, mechanical device, sceneshifter, gearshift, automotive vehicle


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