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Shift :: Shift (v. t.) Something frequently shifted; especially, a woman's under-garment; a chemise..

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.

Apology :: Apology (n.) Anything provided as a substitute; a makeshift.

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) To divide; to distribute; to apportion.

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

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

Baffle :: Baffle (v. t.) To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.

Core :: Core (n.) A miner's underground working time or shift.

Parry :: Parry (v. t.) To avoid; to shift or put off; to evade.

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) The act of shifting.

Switched :: Switch (n.) A mechanical device for shifting an electric current to another circuit.

Shifty :: Shifty (a.) Full of, or ready with, shifts; fertile in expedients or contrivance..

Jibe :: "Jibe (v. i.) To change a ship's course so as to cause a shifting of the boom. See Jibe, v. t., and Gybe..

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..

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.

Tack :: Tack (v. t.) To change the direction of (a vessel) when sailing closehauled, by putting the helm alee and shifting the tacks and sails so that she will proceed to windward nearly at right angles to her former course..

Shark :: Shark (v. i.) To live by shifts and stratagems.

Palter :: Palter (v. i.) To act in insincere or deceitful manner; to play false; to equivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle.

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) The change of one set of workmen for another; hence, a spell, or turn, of work; also, a set of workmen who work in turn with other sets; as, a night shift..

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