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Definition of Shifters
1. shifter [n] - See also: shifter
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shifters
Literary usage of Shifters
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. United States Supreme Court Reports by Lawyers Co-operative Publishing Company, United States Supreme Court (1903)
"When the parts are in this relation, the opposite vertical movement of the two
guides or shifters must evidently carry the spool carriers at one side of the ..."
2. A Supplementary English Glossary by Thomas Lewis Owen Davies (1881)
"... provided a priori ; but if the hue ami cry were once up, they •would show as
fair a pair of hind-shifters as the experte«! loco-motor in the colony. ..."
3. The Modern Factory: Safety, Sanitation and Welfare by George Moses Price (1914)
"A great many attached and unattached belt shifters have been devised for the
purpose of shifting the belt from one pulley to another without danger to the ..."
4. The Life of an Actor by Pierce Egan (1904)
"CHAPTER V The real Thing: a Prison Scene without Wings or Flats, but numerous
shifters. PROTEUS in the Dumps. An Outline of a Fellow-prisoner. ..."
5. Experimental Electrical Engineering and Manual for Electrical Testing for by Vladimir Karapetoff (1922)
"Potential Phase-shifters. — A watt-hour meter which may be used on partly inductive
loads must be tested for its accuracy of calibration at different values ..."
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