Cozener vs Shifter - What's the difference?
cozener | shifter |
One who, or that which, shifts or changes.
(dated) One who plays tricks or practices artifice; a cozener.
(nautical) An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.
(engineering) An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.
(engineering, textiles) A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.
(cycling) A component used by the rider to control the gearing mechanisms and select the desired gear ratio, usually connected to the derailleur by a mechanical actuation cable.
A spanner with an adjustable jaw size.
(Webster 1913)
English agent nouns
As nouns the difference between cozener and shifter
is that cozener is an imposter, a swindler while shifter is one who, or that which, shifts or changes.cozener
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Alternative forms
* (l), (l), (l), (l), (l), (l) * , (l)References
* “cozener]” listed in the [2nd ed., 1989
shifter
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Noun
(en noun)- 'Twas such a shifter that, if truth were known, Death was half glad when he had got him down. — Milton.