Definitions for shifter

shifter shift·er

Spelling: [shif-ter]
IPA: /ˈʃɪf tər/

Shifter is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 13 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 226 anagrams from letters in shifter (efhirst).

Definitions for shifter

noun

  1. a person or thing that shifts.
  2. Informal. shift lever.

Origin of shifter

First recorded in 1545-55; shift + -er1

Examples for shifter

There the scene changed as suddenly as at shifter's whistle.

After he had crossed the yard coming out, he saw a man sneaking toward the shifter, keeping in the shadow of the coal-chutes.

shifter was allowed to run, and they would move the cars away.

I have been a hard-working man, and served all offices on board from cook's shifter to the command of a vessel.

We walked up Smithfield to the Union depot and got into a car with the shifter in front, and took us out to Twenty-eighth street.

"Correa will have to gauge his decision very carefully," says shifter.

Word Value for shifter
Scrable

13

Words with friends

12

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