# shunter

> English word · Noun

## Definitions
1. A railway locomotive used for shunting (switching).
2. A person who carries out shunting operations.
3. One who shunts (carries on arbitrage between London and provincial stock exchanges).

## Etymology
From shunt + -er.

## Source
Compiled from Wiktionary via kaikki.org (CC BY-SA). Data vintage: 2026-05-06.
Canonical page: https://plainspell.com/en/word/shunter