shunting

Webster's Dictionary (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]

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.]