Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A railway-yard in which car-shunting takes place.
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Examples
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Directly in front of the building lies the shunting-yard of the Southern Railroad.
Evidences of Progress Among Colored People G. F. Richings 1902
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The railway van still bears its original red ochre lead paint outside, the wooden boards overprinted here and there with obscure stencilled shunting-yard lingo: Forward Seymour Loco’, 4697 D only’.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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The railway van still bears its original red ochre lead paint outside, the wooden boards overprinted here and there with obscure stencilled shunting-yard lingo: Forward Seymour Loco’, 4697 D only’.
Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009
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