Category:Shifter

Shift"er, n.

1. One who, or that which, shifts; one who plays tricks or practices Artifice; a cozener. 't was such a shifter that, if truth were known, death was half glad When he had got him down. Milton.

2. (naut.)

Defn: an assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and Shifting the salt provisions.

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.