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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..

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

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

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

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

Whiffle :: Whiffle (v. i.) To waver, or shake, as if moved by gusts of wind; to shift, turn, or veer about..

Sharking :: Sharking (n.) Petty rapine; trick; also, seeking a livelihood by shifts and dishonest devices..

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

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

Shiftless :: Shiftless (a.) Destitute of expedients, or not using successful expedients; characterized by failure, especially by failure to provide for one's own support, through negligence or incapacity; hence, lazy; improvident; thriftless; as, a shiftless fellow; shiftless management..

Roustabout :: Roustabout (n.) A laborer, especially a deck hand, on a river steamboat, who moves the cargo, loads and unloads wood, and the like; in an opprobrious sense, a shiftless vagrant who lives by chance jobs..

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

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

Shifted :: Shifted (imp. & p. p.) of Shif.

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

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

Dodge :: Dodge (v. i.) To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start..

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

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..

Jibe :: "Jibe (v. i.) To change a ship's course so as to cause a shifting of the boom. See Jibe, v. t., and Gybe..

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