Adjective : a shunt circuit; a shunt generator. From Dictionary.com.
Maltomeetim, alltomatetam, when a tale tarries shome shunter shove on. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
He was shunting locos in the yard at Wembley one night accompanied by the shunter. From Wordnik.com. [Happy Valentines Day I Don`t Think] Reference
The poor shunter - he's the one who has to go home and explain the love-bites to his missus. From Wordnik.com. [A Fire Raging in Islington] Reference
Hear the sheer drag of scythe on metal the shunter makes at the curve of the viaduct while, with elongated wail, rolls three spoil-wagons to the hollow hill. From Wordnik.com. [Unmanned] Reference
Australia as a replacement shunter for a period of time during 2009. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Financial News] Reference
Identified by George Glaister, brother, High Street, railway shunter. From Wordnik.com. [Whitehaven News headlines] Reference
I'm some shunter myself; but I dip the colors to Aunty: she does it so neat and sudden!. From Wordnik.com. [Torchy, Private Sec.] Reference
A British Rail Class 03 Diesel-mechanical shunter (switcher) with a jackshaft under the cab. From Wordnik.com. [WN.com - Articles related to Steven Spielberg eyes Australia for new dinosaur movie] Reference
Five prototypes of shunter locomotives will be built at its plant in Erie and shipped to Kazakhstan, while the remaining. From Wordnik.com. [ErieBlogs] Reference
Oblivious to this, the station shunter John Gibson ran out and stopped the Edinburgh bus, not the first service he's rendered this commuter. From Wordnik.com. [open Democracy News Analysis - Comments] Reference
Andrew's tutorage I had learned to distinguish the rumble of a "goods" from the rush of a "passenger," a two-engine haul from a single, and even the heavy voice of the big old "shunter" that lived about the. From Wordnik.com. [Some Everyday Folk and Dawn] Reference
Below, organiser Philip Tuer holding a British Rail shunter. From Wordnik.com. [News round-up] Reference
Could you for a few moments look like a director of the line, or a foreman shunter, or something of that sort? ". From Wordnik.com. [Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, June 3, 1914] Reference
I’ll put in a shirt time if you’ll get through your shift and between us in our shared slaves, brace to brassiere and shouter to shunter, we’ll pull off our working programme. From Wordnik.com. [Finnegans Wake] Reference
They've killed a shunter in the yard. From Wordnik.com. [SAFETY] Reference
They've killed a shunter in the yard. From Wordnik.com. [THE SHUNTER] Reference
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