shifter
[shif-ter]
- a person or thing that shifts.
- Informal. shift lever.
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Origin of shifter
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Examples from the Web for shifter
Contemporary Examples
"Correa will have to gauge his decision very carefully," says Shifter.
Historical Examples
There the scene changed as suddenly as at shifter's whistle.
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 ITobias Smollett
Shifter was allowed to run, and they would move the cars away.
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.
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 WesternFrancis Lynde
Word Origin and History for shifter
n.
1550s, "one who shifts" in any way; agent noun from shift (v.). As a mechanical contrivance, from 1869; specifically of the gear-changing mechanism in a motor-vehicle, from 1910.
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