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

Faineant :: Faineant (a.) Doing nothing; shiftless.

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

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.

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

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) To change the position of; to alter the bearings of; to turn; as, to shift the helm or sails..

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

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

Chopping :: Chopping (a.) Shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other; as, a chopping sea..

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

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.

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..

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

Dodge :: Dodge (v. i.) To start suddenly aside, as to avoid a blow or a missile; to shift place by a sudden start..

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..

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

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

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

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..

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

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