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

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

Tergiversation :: Tergiversation (n.) The act of tergiversating; a shifting; shift; subterfuge; evasion.

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

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

Roustabout :: Roustabout (n.) A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs..

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

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) To change the place of; to move or remove from one place to another; as, to shift a burden from one shoulder to another; to shift the blame..

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

Quibble :: Quibble (n.) A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil.

Double :: Double (n.) A turn or circuit in running to escape pursues; hence, a trick; a shift; an artifice..

Shopshift :: Shopshift (n.) The trick of a shopkeeper; deception.

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) A change of the position of the hand on the finger board, in playing the violin..

Faineant :: Faineant (a.) Doing nothing; shiftless.

Shirk :: Shirk (v. i.) To live by shifts and fraud; to shark.

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

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

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

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

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

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