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Definition of shift

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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..

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Whiffle :: Whiffle (v. i.) To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about..

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

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) The act of putting one thing in the place of another, or of changing the place of a thing; change; substitution..

Shack :: Shack (n.) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp..

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

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

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..

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

Shifting :: Shifting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shif.

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

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

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..

Shifted :: Shifted (imp. & p. p.) of Shif.

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.

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..

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

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

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

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

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