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

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

Shunt :: Shunt (v. t.) To turn off to one side; especially, to turn off, as a grain or a car upon a side track; to switch off; to shift..

Gybe :: Gybe (v. t. & i.) To shift from one side of a vessel to the other; -- said of the boom of a fore-and-aft sail when the vessel is steered off the wind until the sail fills on the opposite side.

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

Shifting :: Shifting (a.) Changing in place, position, or direction; varying; variable; fickle; as, shifting winds; shifting opinions or principles..

Veering :: Veering (a.) Shifting.

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

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

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

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.

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) To change the clothing of; -- used reflexively.

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

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

Shuffle :: Shuffle (v. i.) To use arts or expedients; to make shift.

Fend :: Fend (v. i.) To act on the defensive, or in opposition; to resist; to parry; to shift off..

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

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..

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

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