\Shunt\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Shunted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Shunting}.] [Prov. E., to move from, to put off, fr. OE.
shunten, schunten, schounten; cf. D. schuinte a slant, slope,
Icel. skunda to hasten. Cf. {Shun}.]
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.] --Ash.
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. --T.
                                               Hughes.
4. (Elec.) To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a
   galvanometer.

\Shunt\, v. i.
To go aside; to turn off.

\Shunt\, n. [Cf. D. schuinte slant, slope, declivity. See
{Shunt}, v. t.]
1. (Railroad) A turning off to a side or short track, that
   the principal track may be left free.
2. (Elec.) 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.
3. (Gunnery) 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.
{Shunt dynamo} (Elec.), a dynamo in which the field circuit
   is connected with the main circuit so as to form a shunt
   to the letter, thus employing a portion of the current
   from the armature to maintain the field.
{Shunt gun}, a firearm having shunt rifling. See under
   {Rifling}.