English Explanatory Dictionary

backshunt

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A section of railway track which gives access to a siding (or another section of railway line) only by reversing direction; also a train movement which uses such track.

Word forms

backshunt backshunts

Etymology

From back + shunt.

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