3 entries under this word

Shunt

Shŭnt, v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. SHUNTED; p. pr. & vb. n. SHUNTING.] [See SHUN, and also SHUNT, n., infra.]

To shun; to move from. [Prov. Eng.]
To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove. [Prov. Eng.] Ash.
To turn off to one side; especially, to turn off, as a car upon a side track; to switch off; hence, to put off upon one. “For shunting your late partner on to me.” Hughes.

Shŭnt, v. i.

verbintransitive

v. i. To go aside; to turn off.

Shŭnt, n.

noun

n. [D. schuinte, slopeness, declivity; or contracted from shun it.] (Railways.) A turn off to a side or short rail that the principal rail may be left free. Wright.

Shunt gun, a rifled fire-arm having two sets of grooves, down one of which the shot is passed in loading, and along the other of which it passes out when fired, having been shunted from one set to the other, when at the bottom, by turning upon its axis.