Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Shunt \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.