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CIDE DICTIONARY
shieling | shift | shift key | shift register | shiftable | shifter | shiftily | shiftiness | shifting | shiftingly | shiftless

shifter

CIDE DICTIONARY

shiftern. 
  •  One who, or that which, shifts; one who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener.  [1913 Webster]
    "'T was such a shifter that, if truth were known,
    Death was half glad when he had got him down.
    "  [1913 Webster]
  •  An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.  [1913 Webster]
  •  An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.  [1913 Webster]
  •  A foreman responsible for the work on one shift in one area, as in one heading{4}.  [RH]

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