Noun
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.
Source: Webster's dictionaryYou have to find hope. Hope is such a shape shifter. You tend to look in the rearview mirror for hope, but when it's gone, you have to look forward. You have to get in the van and keep driving on. Jonathan Evison
Without my Vulcan cat suit, Frankenstein wig and pointed ears, I don't get recognized. I love the fact I'm a shape shifter who can go unnoticed. Jolene Blalock
Where is Barbie?" The female shifter snickered and choked it off. "Is there a stripper pole? Ilona Andrews
There was I thinking being a shifter had its upsides. Looks like I was wrong. Patricia Briggs
in Britain they call a gearshift a gear lever Source: Internet
A transmission shifter or ignition switch would be able to be replaced with a screw-driver. Source: Internet