Shunt /(?)/

imp. & p. p. Shunted; p. pr. & vb. n. Shunting

1. To shun; to move from. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
2. To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
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.

   For shunting your late partner on to me.

4. To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer. (Elec.)

1. To go aside; to turn off.

1. A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free. (Railroad)
2. A conducting circuit joining two points in a conductor, or the terminals of a galvanometer or dynamo, so as to form a parallel or derived circuit through which a portion of the current may pass, for the purpose of regulating the amount passing in the main circuit. (Elec.)
3. The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun. (Gunnery)