shunter
Britishnoun
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Public transport workers including bus drivers, cleaners and shunters are set to begin strike action on Tuesday.
From BBC
But his favourite role was working as a shunter, which involved taking the diesel engines off the trains, and rubbing shoulders with royalty.
From BBC
Comerford, who is sixty-two, worked for a year and a half as a shunter, tipping molten slag out of huge ladles from the furnaces.
From The New Yorker
As the war progressed women took on the better paid but more hazardous posts of track maintenance platelayer, shunter and guard.
From BBC
Most of the traffic shunters, old and young, seemed to resent their hard existence.
From New York Times
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