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Definition of shunt : 1. A conducting circuit joining two points in a conductor, or the terminals of a galvanometer or dynamo, so as to form a parallel or derived circuit through which a portion of the current may pass, for the purpose of regulating the amount passing in the main circuit.
2. A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free.
3. The shifting of the studs on a projectile from the deep to the shallow sides of the grooves in its discharge from a shunt gun.
4. To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove.
5. To go aside; to turn off.
6. To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer.
7. To shun; to move from.
8. To turn off to one side; especially, to turn off, as a grain or a car upon a side track; to switch off; to shift.

Synonyms:

ring road, bypass, electrical shunt, ringway, beltway

flick, lob, chuck, sling, drive, hurl, butt, pitch, catapult, toss, bowl, heave, cant, cast, throw, propel, fling, thrust, launch, prod, goad, project, impel, bunt, fire, compel, push, ram, precipitate, pelt, shove

Usage examples:

• And I'm given the quick shunt, just like that. - "Torchy and Vee", Sewell Ford.
• " Just as you say," says I. " The old gent is due at two- fifteen, and I'll shunt him onto Briscoe." - "Torchy, Private Sec.", Sewell Ford.
• He had a mirror mounted so that it could be turned in any direction, and would shunt the stream of metallic atoms, heated by their friction with the air, towards any desired point. - "The Moon Metal", Garrett P. Serviss.