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[ shif-ter ] / ˈʃɪf tər /
nouna person or thing that shifts. Informal. shift lever. Origin of shifterFirst recorded in 1545–55; shift + -er1 Words nearby shiftershier, shiest, shift, shiftable, shift bid, shifter, shift for oneself, shifting cultivation, shifting spanner, shift key, shiftless Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for shifter"Correa will have to gauge his decision very carefully," says Shifter. Ecuador Needs U.S. Aid. Will They Risk It All with Snowden?|Mac Margolis|June 26, 2013|DAILY BEAST After he had crossed the yard coming out, he saw a man sneaking toward the shifter, keeping in the shadow of the coal-chutes. The Taming of Red Butte Western|Francis Lynde I have been a hard-working man, and served all offices on board from cook's shifter to the command of a vessel. The Adventures of Peregrine Pickle, Volume I|Tobias Smollett We walked up Smithfield to the Union depot and got into a car with the shifter in front, and took us out to Twenty-eighth street. Report of the Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July, 1877|Various
There the scene changed as suddenly as at shifter's whistle. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 64, No. 398, December 1848|Various Shifter was allowed to run, and they would move the cars away. Report of the Committee Appointed to Investigate the Railroad Riots in July, 1877|Various
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