Shifter : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Shifter	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for Shifter
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
shifter n a stagehand responsible for moving scenery [syn: sceneshifter, shifter] a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears; "in Britain they call a gearshift a gear lever" Synonym(s): gearshift, gearstick, shifter, gear lever
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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.) 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.