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

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..

Smock :: Smock (n.) A woman's under-garment; a shift; a chemise.

Jibe :: "Jibe (v. i.) To shift, as the boom of a fore-and-aft sail, from one side of a vessel to the other when the wind is aft or on the quarter. See Gybe..

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

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

Chemise :: Chemise (n.) A shift, or undergarment, worn by women..

Shiff :: Shiff (v. i.) To slip to one side of a ship, so as to destroy the equilibrum; -- said of ballast or cargo; as, the cargo shifted..

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

Tergiversate :: Tergiversate (v. i.) To shift; to practice evasion; to use subterfuges; to shuffle.

Chicane :: Chicane (n.) To use shifts, cavils, or artifices..

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) To change the position of; to alter the bearings of; to turn; as, to shift the helm or sails..

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

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

Core :: Core (n.) A miner's underground working time or shift.

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

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

Shifter :: Shifter (n.) An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.

Doubling :: Doubling (n.) A turning and winding; as, the doubling of a hunted hare; shift; trick; artifice..

Expedient :: Expedient (n.) Means devised in an exigency; shift.

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