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shunter|ˈʃʌntə(r)|
[f. shunt v. + -er1.]
1. A railwayman employed to shunt trains. Also, a mechanical device to facilitate shunting.
1852F. S. Williams Our Iron Roads App. 381 William Lear, shunter, foot crushed. 1876L'pool Daily Post 3 Oct. 5/1 One of the last new things in mechanical inventions is a railway shunter. It is a wooden lever [etc.].
2. Stock Exchange. (See quot.)
1888Glasgow Even. Times 24 Aug. 3/6 A ‘shunter’ is..a broker who buys or sells a stock in one market in the belief that he will be able immediately to cover the transaction in another at a profit.
Hence ˈshuntership.
1894R. Blatchford Merrie Eng. xix. 149 Promotion to a head shuntership..should be counted as high enough ambition.
Add:[1.] b. A locomotive used for shunting.
1949D. M. Davin Roads from Home ii. vii. 175 Geordie Smith on his shunter had just given a rake of meat waggons a bit of a nudge. 1962D. Abse Poems: Golders Green 20 The shunters slave on silver parallels... Only posh expresses sport proper names. 1979Railway Gaz. Internat. Mar. 219/2 Designed by Hunslet, the shunters are of 0-8-0 wheel arrangement and wheelbase is 3750 mm. 1984‘Tiresias’ Notes from Overground 34 A seemingly innocuous message—‘Will a shunter go to the Bristol end of Platform 1’ can spell trouble. |