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

Shiftable :: Shiftable (a.) Admitting of being shifted.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Shifter :: Shifter (n.) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions..

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

Shopshift :: Shopshift (n.) The trick of a shopkeeper; deception.

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

Quirk :: Quirk (n.) A sudden turn; a starting from the point or line; hence, an artful evasion or subterfuge; a shift; a quibble; as, the quirks of a pettifogger..

Shark :: Shark (v. i.) To live by shifts and stratagems.

Dodge :: Dodge (v. t.) To follow by dodging, or suddenly shifting from place to place..

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..

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..

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

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

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..

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