shunter
IPA: ʃˈʌntɝ
noun
- (rail transport, Britain) A railway locomotive used for shunting; a switcher.
- (rail transport, Britain) A person who carries out shunting operations.
- (finance, UK, historical) One who shunts (carries on arbitrage between London and provincial stock exchanges).
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Examples of "shunter" in Sentences
- The DH7000 was primarily used as a shunter.
- SM42 is the name for a Polish diesel shunter.
- Formed the backbone of the SNCB shunter fleet.
- This locomotive was only operated as a shunter.
- It was mainly used as a shunter in Burg station.
- Switcher or shunter locomotives help the composing.
- As a result, the station still houses a diesel shunter.
- At Figgjo, there is a railway car and a shunter on display.
- Forklift Trucks and a single railway shunter deal with logistics.
- Maltomeetim, alltomatetam, when a tale tarries shome shunter shove on.
- After the War it was used as a shunter at Bricklayers' Arms until 1951.
- 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."
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