The first bugle sounded at three in the morning in the Caribees' camp, and when the coffee had been hastily dispatched, the men began to understand the cause of their being shunted into the field so early the evening before while the rear of the column marched ahead of them.

I informed the authorities that nothing should be shunted in that station until those two carriages were joined to my trains, and proceeded to occupy the whole station.

The course of the river itself is hidden by the shoulders of Egton Low Moor beneath us, but faint sounds of the shunting of trucks are carried up to the heights.

She was weary of travel, tired with the tension of eternally being shunted across distances, anxious to experience once more that sense of restful finality which comes with a journey's end.

And those that have not already become a mere lifeless heap of rags have been jolted in country carts to some railway-station, and there, or at successive junctions, have been shunted on sidings for endless hours.

Still some of the rain struck them, but the major part of it was shunted over their heads.

A car shunted past her, and on its side she saw the big, warning red placardsDynamite.

My answer was, "Yes, instantly, if it is understood that these carriages are to be shunted to my trains."

G Resistance of the shunt of a galvanometer.

(d) By dividing the current, by one or more branch circuits or shunts around the cell. (e) By varying the resistance in any or all of said circuits.

No threat to write a letter to the Times would avail an old-fashioned Englishman when his train was shunted for hours on to a side line to make way for troop trains, passing, passing, through the day and night.