Crossword-Solution: SHUNTER
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Shunter | n. | A person employed to shunt cars from one track to another. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| SHUNTER | anagram | HUNTERS, RUNSTHE |
We have 3 clues for the answer “SHUNTER”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Railroad mechanism | 1 answer |
| Switcher | 1 answer |
| small railway locomotive used for manoeuvring coaches | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
ETERA
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SHUNTER (5)
Under Andrew's tutorage I had learned to distinguish the rumble of a "goods" from the rush of a "passenger," a two-engine haul from a single, and even the heavy voice of the big old "shunter" that lived about the Noonoon station had grown familiar; but the haughtiest of all was a travelling engine attended only by its tender, and speeding by with lightsome action, like a governor thankfully free from officialdom and hampered only by a valet.
The remainder of the "jollies" were drawn up in martial array on the after part of the poop, under the command of Captain Targetts and Lieutenants Wagstaff and Shunter of the same serviceable corps; all of the men spick and span in their full regimentals and appearing as smart as if on the parade ground at Forton; although, but a few minutes previously, most of the poor fellows had been washing plates and mess traps, and performing other menial duties below.
Could you for a few moments look like a director of the line, or a foreman shunter, or something of that sort?" "I could try." "Then," I said cheerfully, "we will bluff the collector--bluff him into believing we are that which we are not.
They flock to Rome, they besiege the Labor bureaus, they will do the artificial Government navvy-work at a miserable five francs a day--a railway shunter having at least eighteen francs a day--anything, anything rather than work the land.
Fetch the foreman, Ike." While the boy, securely held by the ear, stood shivering, Ike went leisurely in search of the foreman shunter.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: NYT, USA TODAY.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1994–1996).