shifter bar

Knitting - machine : A bar having stops or projections, whose office it is to stop one needle-carrier bolt while they lift the other. shift-ing, pr. par., a. & 8. [SHIFT, v.] A. As pr . par .: (See the verb.) B. As adjective: 1. Changing place or position. "Others steer'd, or turn'd the sails, To receive the shifting gales." Cowper : Procedure of Divine Love, 2. Resorting from one expedient to another; fickle, changeable, vacillating. C. As substantive: I. Ordinary Language: 1. The act or state of removing or changing; change, removal. "Hereby it is cleare, that the godly fathers, and bish. oppes in olde times, misliked much this shiftinge of maters to Rome." -Jewell : Works , p. 166. 2. The act of having recourse to equivocal expe II. Naut.: The parting of tackle-blocks which dients or shifts; evasion, artifice, trickery. have been pulled together. shifting-bar, s. Print.: A cro -bar removably dovetailed into a chase. Shifting-bars are generally used in the im position of oddments. [ODDMENT, 2.]