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Veering :: Veering (a.) Shifting.

Prog :: Prog (v. i.) To wander about and beg; to seek food or other supplies by low arts; to seek for advantage by mean shift or tricks.

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

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..

Shifting :: Shifting (a.) Adapted or used for shifting anything.

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..

Switched :: Switch (n.) A mechanical device for shifting an electric current to another circuit.

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

Apology :: Apology (n.) Anything provided as a substitute; a makeshift.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Shunt :: Shunt (v. t.) The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun.

Shifter :: Shifter (n.) One who, or that which, shifts; one who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener..

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