meaning of shifter
1. One who, or that which, shifts; one who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener.
2. An assistant to the ships cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.
3. An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.
4. A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.
5. a mechanical device for engaging and disengaging gears; "in England they call a gearshift a gear
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