■ verb
1》 slowly push or pull (a railway vehicle or vehicles) so as to make up or remove from a train.
↘push or shove.
↘direct or divert to a less important place or position.
2》 provide (an electrical circuit) with a ~, through which some of the current may be diverted.
■ noun
1》 an act of ~ing.
2》 Brit. informal a motor accident, especially a collision of vehicles travelling one close behind the other.
3》 an electrical conductor joining two points of a circuit.
4》 Surgery an alternative path created for the passage of blood or other fluid.
Origin
ME: perh. from shun .