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.
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Plato's Lines in "Antho. Palat." (Vol. v., p. 317.).—
"Star of my soul! thine ardent eyes are bent
On the bright orbs that gem the firmament:
Would that I were the heaven, that I might be
All full of love-lit eyes to gaze on thee."
"You look upon the stars, my star! would I might be
Yon heaven, to look with many eyes on thee."