_The Word Shunt_ (Vol. v., p. 352.) is quite common in the North of
England; in Lancashire it is perhaps especially so. It signifies to
shift, to move, to give way: as, speaking of a thing, a wall or
foundation, which has moved from its position, we should say, "it has
shunted;" or of a thing which requires moving, "Shunt it a little that
way," "Shunt it at the other end." _Shunt_, to move, to slip, to give
way; _shuntu_, they move; _shuntut_, they moved.--See Bamford's
_Lancashire Dialect_: Smith, Soho Square.
The word _grin_, in the same county, signifies a noose to catch hares or
other game, as well as the act of grinning with the teeth. The word
_gin_ is seldom used, except to express a horse gin-wheel, or the
_blue-ruin_ of the Pandemoniums.