to move (e.g. a train) from one track to another
Brit to move (railway vehicles) to different positions on the same track within terminal areas
to provide (an electrical circuit) with or divert it by means of an electrical shunt
to divert (blood) by means of a surgical shunt
(often + off/onto) to avoid (e.g. a task or, responsibility) by transferring it to somebody else
to move (something or somebody) to a less important position
to move into a side track
to travel back and forth
The investigators shunted between the two towns
shunter noun
[Middle English shunten to flinch, perhaps from shun]