·adj Adapted or used for shifting anything.
II. Shifting ·p.pr. & ·vb.n. of Shift.
III. Shifting ·adj Changing in place, position, or direction; varying; variable; fickle; as, shifting winds; shifting opinions or principles.
Shuffling. Tricking. Shifting cove; i.e. a person who lives by tricking. ...
Dictionary of The Vulgar Tongue by Francis Grose
A term used by sailors, to signify soldiers, passengers, or any landsmen on board. ...
When by heavy rolling the ballast shifts in the hold. ...
The Sailor's Word-Book
Pigs of iron, bags of sand, &c., used for ballast, and capable of being moved to trim the vessel. Al...
One or more wooden bulk-heads in a vessel's hold, put up fore-and-aft, and firmly supported, for pre...
See meta-centre. ...
A bank, of which the sand, being incoherent, is subject to removal or being driven about by the viol...
Variable breezes, mostly light. ...
The act of removing the blocks of a tackle to a greater distance from each other, in order to extend...
Changing its position on the capstan from right to left, or vice versâ. ...
Those which can be changed from one side of a ship to the other, as the occasion demands. ...