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Meanings of shunter in anglès

rus
маневровый локомотив
portuguès
locotrator
espanyol
locomotora de maniobras
català
locomotora de maniobres
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Small railroad locomotive intended for assembling trains.

locomotora de maniobres

Railway worker specialized in shunting.

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Examples for "shifter"
Examples for "shifter"
1
In other cases, the shifter functions more like a video game joystick.
The Verge
2
There's a shifter called Bettina and a Were called Hondo with him.
All together dead
3
If she hadn't been a shifter, she wouldn't have heard so much.
Dead to the world
4
Jason didn't know it, but she was a shape-shifter of some kind.
Dead to the world
5
But Jurt is a shape shifter and minor sorcerer from the Courts.
The Great Book of Amber
1
The switcher approach allows campuses to access both platforms from one unit.
Wired
2
Pinch with four or more fingers to go straight to the task switcher.
The Guardian
3
There's also an auto-engine switcher that forces specific pages to use one particular engine.
Wired
4
The new view switcher is next to the search box.
Wired
5
Liz Davies found the switching process very easy Liz Davies is another happy switcher.
The Guardian
1
Just get onto that house; it looks like a mission-style switch engine.
The Rules of the Game
2
He was a railroad engineer who drove a switch engine in the yards.
Tramping on Life / An Autobiographical Narrative
3
He moved forward through the mud, searching the semi-darkness for the switch engine.
Gunsight Pass: How Oil Came to the Cattle Country and Brought a ...
4
It was a Marmon, about the size of a switch engine.
Cat’s Cradle
5
Rapidly he related to her the episode of the switch engine in Dexter Allison's millyards.
Then I'll Come Back to You
Usage of shunter in anglès
1
Limited proposals for a small-scale heritage railway, deploying the restored shunter, also seemed to be going nowhere.
The Guardian
2
This fair will also include a piece of old Irish railway memorabilia, a very large shunter's master key.
The Irish Times
3
A bright blue 1950s shunter, straight from the pages of Thomas the Tank Engine, sits next to a 1920s railway carriage used for storage.
The Guardian
4
Coupling under slow movement, the wagons being shunted together by two shunters.
Scientific American Supplement, No. 601, July 9, 1887
5
Intelligent non-commissioned officers and men were converted into shunters, guards, and pointsmen.
The River War: An Account of the Reconquest of the Sudan
6
The little chimney of the van smokes, and I hear the voices of guards and shunters talking cheerily together.
The Upton Letters
7
'We'll get you there in time, sir, if we have to go clear through the shunters.
The Beetle: A Mystery