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shifter
(encz) | shifter,posunovač n: Zdeněk Brož |
Shifter
(gcide) | Shifter \Shift"er\, n.
1. One who, or that which, shifts; one who plays tricks or
practices artifice; a cozener.
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'T was such a shifter that, if truth were known,
Death was half glad when he had got him down.
--Milton.
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2. (Naut.) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing,
steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.
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3. (Mach.)
(a) An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one
pulley to another.
(b) (Knitting Mach.) A wire for changing a loop from one
needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.
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4. (construction, tunneling) A foreman responsible for the
work on one shift in one area, as in one heading[4].
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shifter
(wn) | shifter
n 1: a stagehand responsible for moving scenery [syn:
sceneshifter, shifter]
2: a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears; "in
Britain they call a gearshift a gear lever" [syn:
gearshift, gearstick, shifter, gear lever] |
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