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shifter |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Shifter \Shift"er\, n. 1. One who or that which shifts; one who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener. 'T was such a shifter that if truth were known Death was half glad when he had got him down --Milton. 2. (Naut.) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions. 3. (Mach.) a An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another. b (Knitting Mach.) A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc
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