shifter

One who shifts or changes: as, a scene –shifter.

Nautical, a person employed to assist the ship’s cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.

A contrivance used in shifting.

One who is given to change; a fickle person; also, one who resorts to petty shifts or expedients; one who practises artifice; a dodger; a trickster; a cozener.

One who, or that which, shifts; 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 foreman responsible for the work on one shift in one area, as in one heading{4}.