In 1884, Angelo Moriondo of Turin, Italy, demonstrated the first working example of an espresso machine.
SHIFTERS
Noun
shifters
plural of shifter
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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.)
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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