shifter

[shift]

A mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears

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One who, or that which, shifts; one who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener.

Noun
a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears; "in England they call a gearshift a gear lever"

Noun
a stagehand responsible for moving scenery


n.
One who, or that which, shifts; one who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener.

n.
An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.

n.
An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.

n.
A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.


Shifter

Shift"er , 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.

One who, or that which, shifts; one who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener.

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