SHIFTER

gearshift, gearstick, shifter, gear lever

(noun) a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears; “in Britain they call a gearshift a gear lever”

sceneshifter, shifter

(noun) a stagehand responsible for moving scenery

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

shifter (plural shifters)

One who, or that which, shifts or changes.

(linguistics) A word whose meaning changes depending on the situation, as by deixis.

(dated) One who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener.

(nautical) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.

(engineering) An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.

(engineering, textiles) A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.

(cycling) A component used by the rider to control the gearing mechanisms and select the desired gear ratio, usually connected to the derailleur by a mechanical actuation cable.

A spanner with an adjustable jaw size.

(mining, historical) A person employed to repair the horseways and other passages, and keep them unobstructed.

(US, Pennsylvania) A switcher or shunter: a railroad locomotive used for shunting.

(mythology, science fiction, fantasy) A shape-shifter, or a person or other being capable of changing their physical form.

(erotica) A genre of erotica focusing on lycanthropes or other shapeshifters, such as werewolves.

Synonyms

• (shapeshifter): See shape-shifter.

Anagrams

• reshift

Source: Wiktionary

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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.)

Definition: 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.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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