'Shunting' definitions:
Definition of 'Shunting'
From: GCIDE
- 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] [Webster 1913 Suppl.]
Definition of 'Shunting'
From: GCIDE
- 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.] [1913 Webster]
- 2. To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] --Ash. [1913 Webster]
- 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. [1913 Webster]
- For shunting your late partner on to me. --T. Hughes. [1913 Webster]
- 4. (Elec.) To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer. [1913 Webster]