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

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..

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) To put off or out of the way by some expedient.

Modulation :: Modulation (n.) A change of key, whether transient, or until the music becomes established in the new key; a shifting of the tonality of a piece, so that the harmonies all center upon a new keynote or tonic; the art of transition out of the original key into one nearly related, and so on, it may be, by successive changes, into a key quite remote. There are also sudden and unprepared modulations..

Thimblerig :: Thimblerig (v. t.) To swindle by means of small cups or thimbles, and a pea or small ball placed under one of them and quickly shifted to another, the victim laying a wager that he knows under which cup it is; hence, to cheat by any trick..

Shiff :: Shiff (v. i.) To slip to one side of a ship, so as to destroy the equilibrum; -- said of ballast or cargo; as, the cargo shifted..

Baffle :: Baffle (n.) A defeat by artifice, shifts, and turns; discomfiture..

Veer :: Veer (v. i.) To change direction; to turn; to shift; as, wind veers to the west or north..

Unshiftable :: Unshiftable (a.) That may /ot be shifted.

Dodge :: Dodge (v. i.) To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble.

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

Makeshift :: Makeshift (n.) That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient.

Sloop :: Sloop (n.) A vessel having one mast and fore-and-aft rig, consisting of a boom-and-gaff mainsail, jibs, staysail, and gaff topsail. The typical sloop has a fixed bowsprit, topmast, and standing rigging, while those of a cutter are capable of being readily shifted. The sloop usually carries a centerboard, and depends for stability upon breadth of beam rather than depth of keel. The two types have rapidly approximated since 1880. One radical distinction is that a slop may carry a centerboard. See

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

Jibe :: "Jibe (v. i.) To shift, as the boom of a fore-and-aft sail, from one side of a vessel to the other when the wind is aft or on the quarter. See Gybe..

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

Chop :: Chop (v. i.) To vary or shift suddenly; as, the wind chops about..

Tergiversate :: Tergiversate (v. i.) To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges; to shuffle.

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

Machinist :: Machinist (n.) A person employed to shift scenery in a theater.

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