shuntern.
/ˈʃʌntə/, U.S. /ˈʃən(t)ər/ 1. A railwayman employed to shunt trains. Also, a mechanical device to facilitate shunting.
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society > travel > rail travel > railway system or organization > [noun] > device for shunting
shunter1852
society > travel > rail travel > railway worker > [noun] > train-staff > engine-driver > specific type
shunter1852
pilot driver1867
switch-engineer1906
1852 F. S. Williams Our Iron Roads App. 381 William Lear, shunter, foot crushed.
1876 Daily Post (Liverpool) 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 Market. (See quot. 1888.)
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society > trade and finance > stocks and shares > [noun] > dealer in stocks and shares > stock-broker > type of
agency broker1827
short1849
shunter1888
taker1899
coulissier1910
1888 Glasgow Evening 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.
Derivatives
ˈshuntership n.
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society > travel > rail travel > railway worker > [noun] > train-staff > engine-driver > specific type > position of shunter
shuntership1894
1894 R. Blatchford Merrie Eng. xix. 149 Promotion to a head shuntership..should be counted as high enough ambition.
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b. A locomotive used for shunting.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > [noun]
locomotive engine1814
locomotive1829
power vehicle1901
train1904
unit1938
shunter1949
1949 D. 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.
1962 D. Abse Poems: Golders Green 20 The shunters slave on silver parallels... Only posh expresses sport proper names.
1979 Railway 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.
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