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Shunt :: Shunt (v. t.) To shun; to move from.

Shunt :: Shunt (v. t.) To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove.

Shunt :: Shunt (v. t.) A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free..

Shunt :: Shunt (v. t.) To turn off to one side; especially, to turn off, as a grain or a car upon a side track; to switch off; to shift..

Shunt :: Shunt (v. i.) To go aside; to turn off.

Turn-out :: Turn-out (n.) A short side track on a railroad, which may be occupied by one train while another is passing on a main track; a shunt; a siding; a switch..

Shunt :: Shunt (v. t.) To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer..

Shunt :: Shunt (v. t.) The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun.

Shunt :: Shunt (v. t.) A conducting circuit joining two points in a conductor, or the terminals of a galvanometer or dynamo, so as to form a parallel or derived circuit through which a portion of the current may pass, for the purpose of regulating the amount passing in the main circuit..

Shunter :: Shunter (n.) A person employed to shunt cars from one track to another.

Shunted :: Shunted (imp. & p. p.) of Shun.

Shunting :: Shunting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Shun.

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