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Shirk :: Shirk (v. i.) To live by shifts and fraud; to shark.

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

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

Dodge :: Dodge (v. i.) To evade a duty by low craft; to practice mean shifts; to use tricky devices; to play fast and loose; to quibble.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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..

Shiff :: Shiff (v. i.) To slip to one side of a ship, so as to destroy the equilibrum; -- said of ballast or cargo; as, the cargo shifted..

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

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

Expedient :: Expedient (n.) Means devised in an exigency; shift.

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

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..

Shiftingly :: Shiftingly (adv.) In a shifting manner.

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

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

Put-off :: Put-off (n.) A shift for evasion or delay; an evasion; an excuse.

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