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Shift :: Shift (v. t.) In building, the extent, or arrangement, of the overlapping of plank, brick, stones, etc., that are placed in courses so as to break joints..

Smock :: Smock (n.) A woman's under-garment; a shift; a chemise.

Windlass :: Windlass (n.) A winding and circuitous way; a roundabout course; a shift.

Dodge :: Dodge (v. t.) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place..

Variable :: Variable (n.) A shifting wind, or one that varies in force..

Mucker :: Mucker (v. t.) To scrape together, as money, by mean labor or shifts..

Put-off :: Put-off (n.) A shift for evasion or delay; an evasion; an excuse.

Shunt :: Shunt (v. t.) The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun.

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

Subterrane :: Subterfuge (n.) That to which one resorts for escape or concealment; an artifice employed to escape censure or the force of an argument, or to justify opinions or conduct; a shift; an evasion..

Chicane :: Chicane (n.) To use shifts, cavils, or artifices..

Prog :: Prog (v. i.) To wander about and beg; to seek food or other supplies by low arts; to seek for advantage by mean shift or tricks.

Shifter :: Shifter (n.) An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) To exchange for another of the same class; to remove and to put some similar thing in its place; to change; as, to shift the clothes; to shift the scenes..

Tack :: Tack (v. i.) To change the direction of a vessel by shifting the position of the helm and sails; also (as said of a vessel), to have her direction changed through the shifting of the helm and sails. See Tack, v. t., 4..

Shiftable :: Shiftable (a.) Admitting of being shifted.

Switch :: Switch (v. t.) To shift to another circuit.

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

Shirk :: Shirk (n.) One who lives by shifts and tricks; one who avoids the performance of duty or labor.

Dodge :: Dodge (v. i.) To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start..

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