Vocabulary : Shug to Shunted

Shug : To writhe the body so as to produce friction against one's clothes, as do those who have the itch. ;; Hence, to crawl; to sneak.
Shumac : Sumac.
Shun : To avoid; to keep clear of; to get out of the way of; to escape from; to eschew; as, to shun rocks, shoals, vice.
Shunless : Not to be shunned; inevitable; unavoidable.
Shunned : of Shun

Shunning : of Shun
Shunt : To shun; to move from. ;; To cause to move suddenly; to give a sudden start to; to shove. ;; 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. ;; To provide with a shunt; as, to shunt a galvanometer. ;; To go aside; to turn off. ;; A turning off to a side or short track, that the principal track may be left free. ;; 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. ;; 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.
Shunt valve : A valve permitting a fluid under pressure an easier avenue of escape than normally; specif., a valve, actuated by the governor, used in one system of marine-engine governing to connect both ends of the low-pressure cylinder as a supplementary control.
Shunt winding : A winding so arranged as to divide the armature current and lead a portion of it around the field-magnet coils; -- opposed to series winding.
Shunted : of Shunt

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