Usually means: Engine for arranging railway vehicles.
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We found 22 dictionaries that define the word shunter:

General (16 matching dictionaries)
  1. shunter: Merriam-Webster
  2. shunter: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. shunter: Collins English Dictionary
  4. shunter: Vocabulary.com
  5. shunter: Wordnik
  6. shunter: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. shunter: Wiktionary
  8. shunter: Dictionary.com
  9. Shunter (rail), Shunter: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  10. Shunter: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  11. shunter: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  12. shunter: Rhymezone
  13. Shunter: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  14. shunter: FreeDictionary.org
  15. shunter: Mnemonic Dictionary
  16. shunter: TheFreeDictionary.com

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shunter: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shunter: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. shunter: Medical dictionary

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. SHUNTER, SHUNTER, SHUNTER: Terminology and Descriptions of Geneaological Words

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. shunter, shunter: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. shunter: Urban Dictionary

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Definitions from Wiktionary (shunter)

noun:  (rail transport, British) A railway locomotive used for shunting (switching).
noun:  (rail transport, British) A person who carries out shunting operations.
noun:  (finance, UK, historical) One who shunts (carries on arbitrage between London and provincial stock exchanges).

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