shunting engine
Americannoun
Example Sentences
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He was just a cog in its sprawling machine, driving a dumpy, asthmatic shunting engine back & forth, day after day.
From Time Magazine Archive
He sings, waves his hands, and collapses behind a shunting engine, while four of the loveliest peaks that the Almighty ever moulded look down upon him.
From Letters of Travel (1892-1913) by Kipling, Rudyard
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