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noun

Shifter n.

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."

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

(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.

(construction, tunneling) A foreman responsible for the work on one shift in one area, as in one heading (4).

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Etymology of 'Shifter'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Shifter" Quotes from Famous Books

... assumption of sternness: 'Are you sure, boy, you are not a bailiff in disguise?' At this I laughed and he left me. The note procured me an engagement as errand boy at the stage-door and later I rose to the dignity of scene-shifter. How truly typical of this man's greatness, to help lift a homeless lad out of the ...

— The Strollers • Frederic S. Isham

... himself for eighteen months by making tallow candles on Staten Island. At the same time French exiles were seeking to gain a living in New York,—Ledru Rollin as a store porter, Louis Blanc as a dancing-master, and Felix Pyat as a scene-shifter. Not succeeding very well in making candles, Garibaldi went again to South America, and became captain of a trading-vessel plying between China and Peru, and then again of a vessel between New York and England. In 1854 he was once ...

— Beacon Lights of History, Volume X • John Lord

Words linked to "Shifter" : shift, gearshift, gearstick, mechanical device, motor vehicle, stage technician