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Sceneshifter :: Sceneshifter (n.) One who moves the scenes in a theater; a sceneman.

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

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..

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) The act of shifting.

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) To exchange for another of the same class; to remove and to put some similar thing in its place; to change; as, to shift the clothes; to shift the scenes..

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

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

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

Ease :: Ease (n.) To release from pressure or restraint; to move gently; to lift slightly; to shift a little; as, to ease a bar or nut in machinery..

Subterrane :: Subterfuge (n.) That to which one resorts for escape or concealment; an artifice employed to escape censure or the force of an argument, or to justify opinions or conduct; a shift; an evasion..

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

Modulation :: Modulation (n.) A change of key, whether transient, or until the music becomes established in the new key; a shifting of the tonality of a piece, so that the harmonies all center upon a new keynote or tonic; the art of transition out of the original key into one nearly related, and so on, it may be, by successive changes, into a key quite remote. There are also sudden and unprepared modulations..

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) A change of the position of the hand on the finger board, in playing the violin..

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

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

Veer :: Veer (v. i.) To change direction; to turn; to shift; as, wind veers to the west or north..

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..

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..

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

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.

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