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shifters
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Definitions ofshifters
1noun
- One who, or that which, shifts or changes.
- A word whose meaning changes depending on the situation, as by deixis.
- One who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener.
- An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.
- An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.
- A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.
- 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.
- A person employed to repair the horseways and other passages, and keep them unobstructed.
- A switcher or shunter: a railroad locomotive used for shunting.
- 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.
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