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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