Crossword-Solution: SHIFTER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Shifter | n. | One who, or that which, shifts; one who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener. |
| Shifter | n. | An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions. |
| Shifter | n. | An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another. |
| Shifter | n. | A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc. |
We have 3 clues for the answer “SHIFTER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Four-on-the-floor item | 1 answer |
| Lever on a steering apparatus | 1 answer |
| Semi driver, at times | 2 answers |
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Poet’s word, with inverted comma, for the end of the day
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Hint 1 meaning
The old plural of Eye.
Hint 2 anagram
NEE
Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with SHIFTER (5)
Mildred felt no bitterness; ever since she could remember her mother had been a shifter of responsibility.
Then ensued another pause, as though to give the invisible scene-shifter time to accomplish his work, followed by a shower of evening coolness, that seemed to sift through the trees like a soft and gentle rain.
Remember my wishing he'd have been a ventriloquist? Why, that man that tried to sell me to Obermuller hasn't sense enough to be a good scene-shifter.
Just as the scene-shifter was happier in making both ends meet in a room shared with two other men, than he would have been had he packed a feeble family along with a couple of men into a cheaper room, and failed in making both ends meet.
But whilst he believed himself one of the managers, called upon to divide the receipts, he was but a scene-shifter with a stated salary.
Quotes with SHIFTER (3)
So instead of ignoring the pain, I called out to it, reaching for more. Pain is part of who I am. It’s the defining characteristic of a Shifter’s transformation. Pain is what I suffer from my enemies. It is what I deal out to those who break our laws. It is what I protect my charges from. Pain is what I inherited from fate, that fickle bitch who gave me a mouth and fists, then put me in a world that wanted only my womb and my cradled arms.
Fate's got a fucking sick sense of humor. Fate is a shape-shifter. It's the kindest and most generous entity imaginable, laying out more goodness than a person deserves, and then it shrinks and curls and forms into something grotesque. You think its one thing, but then its another.
The sexual attraction between a shifter and one of the marked was always strong and for some that was enough. Even though it might mean spending the rest of your life bound to a woman who wanted to screw you every time she looked at you, but hated you while she did it.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Newsday, NYT, Universal.
Used 3 times in crossword archives (1989–2010).