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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Shunt  \Shunt\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Shunted};  p.  pr  &  vb  n. 
  {Shunting}.]  [Prov.  E.,  to  move  from  to  put  off  fr  OE 
  shunten,  schunten  schounten  cf  D.  schuinte  a  slant,  slope, 
  Icel.  skunda  to  hasten.  Cf  {Shun}.] 
  1.  To  shun;  to  move  from  [Obs.  or  Prov.  Eng.] 
 
  2.  To  cause  to  move  suddenly;  to  give  a  sudden  start  to  to 
  shove.  [Obs.  or  Prov.  Eng.]  --Ash. 
 
  3.  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. 
 
  For  shunting  your  late  partner  on  to  me  --T. 
  Hughes. 
 
  4.  (Elec.)  To  provide  with  a  shunt;  as  to  shunt  a 
  galvanometer. 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Shunting  \Shunt"ing\,  p.  pr  &  vb  n.  of  {Shunt}.  Specif.:  vb 
  n. 
  a  (Railroads)  Switching;  as  shunting  engine,  yard,  etc 
  [British] 
  b  (Finance)  Arbitrage  conducted  between  certain  local 
  markets  without  the  necessity  of  the  exchange  involved  in 
  foreign  arbitrage.  [Great  Britain]




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