Clues for the word "SHUNT"
We've had 42 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 62 times in crosswords. It was last seen in Penny Dell Daily crossword on September 21, 2025.
Definition of shunt
- v. t. - To shun; to move from.
- v. t. - To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove.
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer.
- v. i. - To go aside; to turn off.
- v. t. - A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free.
- v. t. - 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.
- v. t. - 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.
Referring Clues
- Divert
- Railroad switch
- Bypass
- Turn aside
- Surgical implant
- Electrical bypass
- Sidetrack
- Surgical bypass tube
- Push aside
- Switch to a new track
- Move to one side
- Move to one side
- Move aside
- Move aside
- Move aside
- Turn off to one side
- Switch a freight car
- Surgical device that diverts blood
- Surgical bypass
- Reroute
- Move to another track
- Get rid of
- Divert, as a train
- Way around the block?
- Switch to another track
- Type of surgical implant
- Transfer to another track, as a train
- Car crash (slang)
- New leader shut out by accident
- Move off the main line
- Transfer rolling stock from track to track
- Move railway wagons etc
- Vandal in road accident
- Deliberately avoid front of truck in crash
- Avoid rear-end of cart or crash
- Bypass small pack of hounds
- Push to one side
- Shove
- Move to the side
- Move to another train track
- Car crash to avoid at a road junction
- Push
Last Seen In
- Penny Dell Daily - September 21, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - June 08, 2024
- Penny Dell Daily - March 12, 2024
- Evening Standard Cryptic - April 10, 2023
- New York Times - October 29, 2022
- Penny Dell Sunday - July 10, 2022
- Penny Dell Daily - September 17, 2017
- Universal - July 06, 2017
- USA Today - March 28, 2017
- Evening Standard Cryptic - March 14, 2017
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - January 27, 2017
- LA Times - January 06, 2017
- Netword - November 02, 2016
- Wall Street Journal - February 26, 2016
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - November 29, 2015
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - November 27, 2015
- Guardian Quick - November 09, 2015
- USA Today - July 31, 2015
- New York Times - May 26, 2015
- Family Time - November 30, 2014
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - October 20, 2014
- Pat Sajack's Code Letter - May 22, 2014
- King Syndicate - Thomas Joseph - April 16, 2014
- Washington Post - March 25, 2014
- Universal - February 22, 2014
- New York Times - February 12, 2014
- Family Time - November 17, 2013
- Netword - August 04, 2013
- USA Today - March 21, 2013
- LA Times - November 10, 2011
- And in 32 more crossword puzzles...