shift n OED ~ sb 9 obs exc dial; EDD 12 for sense 1.
1 A change of clothing.
T 187/90-65 The boss'd have clothes in there to deliver, an' take it from your wages. Every Saturday night he'd take this old [suit of clothes] an' carry it around the dump and heave it over, an' go in the fore-peak an' get another shift an' put on. C 71-122 She'd always say, make sure you take a clean shift of clothes with you.
2 Phr take a shift: to move from one location to another; SHIFT v.
1910 PRICHARD 110 No doubt in that year the herds 'took a shift,' as my men called it, as neither before nor since, within their experience, had there been such an invasion [by caribou] of the Terra Nova country.
