shiftenv.
/ˈʃɪftən/ Obsolete exc. dialect. (East Anglian).
transitive. To remove (a thing) from one place to another; to change (one's clothes or garments). Also in knitting (see quot. a1825).
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > place or put in a position [verb (transitive)] > in different position
changea1375
movea1382
shifta1400
skifta1400
transpose?1518
shiften1544
transplace1621
trans-situate1630
translocate1650
shuffle1694
mudge1823
relocate1829
translaya1861
to change around1871
1544 T. Phaer Of Pestilence (1553) N viij It is good for him to shiften his bedde out of one chamber into another.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Shiften. 1. To change linen. 2. To shift stitches from one pin to another in knitting.
Derivatives
ˈshiftening n. a change of linen.
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the world > textiles and clothing > clothing > types or styles of clothing > [noun] > change of
shiftc1570
shifting1631
shiftening1676
shifting clothes1885
1676 in G. N. Godwin Bits about Bergholt (1874) 115 Linnen to make shiftnings for the poor.
1691 in G. N. Godwin Bits about Bergholt (1874) 115 That the shiftnings be cut out at Mr. Robert Woodgate's.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) (at cited word) A poor woman begs of the overseer, to give her boy, who is going out to service ‘only a shiftening, two of each sort, one on and one off’.
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