A spanner with an adjustable jaw size.
A word whose meaning changes depending on the situation, as by deixis.
A switcher or shunter: a railroad locomotive used for shunting.
One who, or that which, shifts or changes.
An assistant to the ship's cook in washing, steeping, and shifting the salt provisions.
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.
An arrangement for shifting a belt sidewise from one pulley to another.
A genre of erotica focusing on lycanthropes or other shapeshifters, such as werewolves.
A person who changes the reality their consciousness resides in, through meditation or other means.
A wire for changing a loop from one needle to another, as in narrowing, etc.
A person employed to repair the horseways and other passages, and keep them unobstructed.
A shape-shifter, or a person or other being capable of changing their physical form.
An adjustable spanner used by plumbers.
In screw theory, a screw assembled from force and torque vectors arising from application of Newton's laws to a rigid body.
A movement that twists or pulls violently; a tug.
An injury caused by a violent twisting or pulling of a limb; strain, sprain.
A distorting change from the original meaning.
In coursing, the act of bringing the hare round at less than a right angle, worth half a point in the recognised code of points for judging.
A hand tool for making rotational adjustments, such as fitting nuts and bolts, or fitting pipes; a spanner.
A violent emotional change caused by separation.
To rack with pain; to be hurt or distressed.
To deprive by means of a violent pull or twist.
To use a wrench; to twist with a wrench.
To pull or twist violently.
To injure (a joint) by pulling or twisting.
To distort the original meaning of; to misrepresent.