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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..

Shifting :: Shifting (a.) Changing in place, position, or direction; varying; variable; fickle; as, shifting winds; shifting opinions or principles..

Veering :: Veering (a.) Shifting.

Go-by :: Go-by (n.) A passing without notice; intentional neglect; thrusting away; a shifting off; adieu; as, to give a proposal the go-by..

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

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

Shiftiness :: Shiftiness (n.) The quality or state of being shifty.

Tack :: Tack (v. t.) To change the direction of (a vessel) when sailing closehauled, by putting the helm alee and shifting the tacks and sails so that she will proceed to windward nearly at right angles to her former course..

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

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

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

Variable :: Variable (n.) A shifting wind, or one that varies in force..

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

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

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

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

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..

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.

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

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

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