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

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

Prevaricate :: Prevaricate (v. i.) To shift or turn from one side to the other, from the direct course, or from truth; to speak with equivocation; to shuffle; to quibble; as, he prevaricates in his statement..

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.

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..

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..

Shack :: Shack (n.) A shiftless fellow; a low, itinerant beggar; a vagabond; a tramp..

Shirk :: Shirk (n.) One who lives by shifts and tricks; one who avoids the performance of duty or labor.

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..

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

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

Veering :: Veering (a.) Shifting.

Chicane :: Chicane (n.) To use shifts, cavils, or artifices..

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

Double :: Double (n.) A turn or circuit in running to escape pursues; hence, a trick; a shift; an artifice..

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

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

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

Switched :: Switch (n.) A mechanical device for shifting an electric current to another circuit.

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

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