Word Study
shifter
CIDE DICTIONARY
shifter, n.
- 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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