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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..

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

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..

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..

Unshiftable :: Unshiftable (a.) That may /ot be shifted.

Caveating :: Caveating (n.) Shifting the sword from one side of an adversary's sword to the other.

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

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

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.

Shift :: Shift (v. t.) To change the place of; to move or remove from one place to another; as, to shift a burden from one shoulder to another; to shift the blame..

Chop :: Chop (v. i.) To vary or shift suddenly; as, the wind chops about..

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..

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

Unshiftable :: Unshiftable (a.) Shiftless; helpless.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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