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Definition of Shunters

1. shunter [n] - See also: shunter

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Lexicographical Neighbors of Shunters

shunner shunners shunning shunpike shunpiked shunpiker shunpikers shunpikes shunpiking shunpikings

shuns shunt shunt shunted shunter shunters (current term) shunting shuntings shunts shunt circuit

shun giku shura shuras shush shushed shusher shushers shushes shushing shut

Literary usage of Shunters

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1. Should Our Railways be Nationalised?: A Comparison of British, German,and by William Cunningham (1903)
"... and Firemen 44058 Porters 50844 shunters 9244 Inspectors 8610 Passenger Guards 6826 ... shunters ..."

2. Safe Railway Working: A Popular Treatise on Railway Accidents Their Cause by Clement Edwin Stretton (1893)
"... of couplings upon goods and mineral waggons, in order to avoid the guards and shunters having to go between the vehicles to couple or uncouple them. ..."

3. Safe Railway Working: A Popular Treatise on Railway Accidents Their Cause by Clement Edwin Stretton (1893)
"... of couplings upon goods and mineral waggons, in order to avoid the guards and shunters having to go between the vehicles to couple or uncouple them. ..."

4. Rules and Regulations to be Observed by All Persons in the Service of the by Cape of Good Hope Dept. of Railways, Cape of Good Hope (South Africa), Dept. of Railways (1893)
"shunters, &c. signal mat™- 173 por instructions relative to Signals and Signalling, see Rules 44 to 94a. ce 0f 174. Every G uard, unless otherwise ordered, ..."

5. Retrospective Lessons on Railway Strikes, United Kingdom by Edward J. O'B. Croker (1898)
"... and any Special Guard who has five years worked as a Special Guard receive full pay; that all shunters who are constantly employed as such in busy yards ..."

6. Sessional Papers (1902)
"The Company forbade this practice at Newcastle Quay in with good results, and issued instructions to their horse shunters to attach the chains to the horse ..."

7. The Railway Goods Station: A Guide to Its Control and Operation by Fred. W. West (1912)
"Thus, if the records show that three shunters dispose of 100 wagons an hour ... The anticipated effect would be that the shunters would get through their ..."

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