shunter

IPA: ʃˈʌntɝ

(rail transport, British) A railway locomotive used for shunting (switching).
(rail transport, British) A person who carries out shunting operations.
(finance, UK, historical) One who shunts (carries on arbitrage between London and provincial stock exchanges).

Examples of "shunter" in Sentences

Maltomeetim, alltomatetam, when a tale tarries shome shunter shove on.
He was shunting locos in the yard at Wembley one night accompanied by the shunter.
I'm some shunter myself; but I dip the colors to Aunty: she does it so neat and sudden!
The poor shunter - he's the one who has to go home and explain the love-bites to his missus.
A British Rail Class 03 Diesel-mechanical shunter (switcher) with a jackshaft under the cab.
Hear the sheer drag of scythe on metal the shunter makes at the curve of the viaduct while, with elongated wail, rolls three spoil-wagons to the hollow hill.
Samta, who is the only woman, will too have to go through the defined hierarchy of assistant loco pilot, shunter, goods loco pilot, passenger loco pilot and then Mail/Express loco pilot.
Andrew's tutorage I had learned to distinguish the rumble of a "goods" from the rush of a "passenger," a two-engine haul from a single, and even the heavy voice of the big old "shunter" that lived about the
On throwing the handle over, and against the end of the wagon, the crank moves over and below the center, lifting up the catch into a position out of range of action, and from this position it cannot fall except it is released by the shunter.
Rachel did this by 'herself' with the shunter watching - when 'she' had finished 'she' said to the shunter testily "If you had been a gentleman you would have done that for me." to which the shunter said "And if you had been a lady I would have done."