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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

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

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

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

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

Veering :: Veering (a.) Shifting.

Variable :: Variable (n.) A shifting wind, or one that varies in force..

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

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

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..

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

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

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

Lorry :: Lorry (n.) A small cart or wagon, as those used on the tramways in mines to carry coal or rubbish; also, a barrow or truck for shifting baggage, as at railway stations..

Prevaricate :: Prevaricate (v. i.) To shift or turn from one side to the other, from the direct course, or from truth; to speak with equivocation; to shuffle; to quibble; as, he prevaricates in his statement..

Unshiftable :: Unshiftable (a.) Shiftless; helpless.

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..

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

Shirk :: Shirk (n.) One who lives by shifts and tricks; one who avoids the performance of duty or labor.

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

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