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Shunt :: Shunt (v. t.) To turn off to one side; especially, to turn off, as a grain or a car upon a side track; to switch off; to shift..

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

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..

Doubling :: Doubling (n.) A turning and winding; as, the doubling of a hunted hare; shift; trick; artifice..

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..

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

Dodge :: Dodge (v. t.) To evade by a sudden shift of place; to escape by starting aside; as, to dodge a blow aimed or a ball thrown..

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

Lurch :: Lurch (v. i.) To dodge; to shift; to play tricks.

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

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..

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..

Baffle :: Baffle (v. t.) To check by shifts and turns; to elude; to foil.

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

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

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

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

Quibble :: Quibble (n.) A shift or turn from the point in question; a trifling or evasive distinction; an evasion; a cavil.

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) The change of one set of workmen for another; hence, a spell, or turn, of work; also, a set of workmen who work in turn with other sets; as, a night shift..

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

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