Farmer’s Slang & Its Analogues. 1890–1909, rev. 2022.
Shunter
subs. (stock exchange).—See quot.
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1871. G. D. ATKIN, House Scraps, 12. A SHUNTER … A man who buys or sells stocks on the chance of undoing his business, on one of the provincial Stock Exchanges, at a profit.
