SHUTTLE

shuttle

(noun) bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads

shuttle

(noun) public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that flies back and forth between two points

shuttlecock, bird, birdie, shuttle

(noun) badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers

shuttle

(verb) travel back and forth between two points

Source: WordNet® 3.1

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Etymology

Noun

shuttle (plural shuttles)

(weaving) The part of a loom that carries the woof back and forth between the warp threads.

The sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which carries the lower thread through a loop of the upper thread, to make a lock stitch.

A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two places, sometimes more.

Such a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle.

Any other item that moves repeatedly back and forth between two positions, possibly transporting something else with it between those points (such as, in chemistry, a molecular shuttle).

A shuttlecock.

A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.

Usage notes

Strictly speaking, a shuttle goes back and forth between two places. However, the term is also used more generally for short-haul transport that may be one-way or have multiple stops (including shared ride or loop), particularly for airport buses; compare loose usage of limousine.

Verb

shuttle (third-person singular simple present shuttles, present participle shuttling, simple past and past participle shuttled)

(intransitive) To go back and forth between two places.

(transitive) To transport by shuttle or by means of a shuttle service.

Synonym: chauffeur

Anagrams

• lusteth

Source: Wiktionary

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Shut"tle, n. Etym: [Also shittle, OE. schitel, scytyl, schetyl; cf. OE. schitel a bolt of a door, AS. scyttes; all from AS. sceótan to shoot; akin to Dan. skyttel, skytte, shuttle, dial. Sw. skyttel, sköttel. sq. root159. See Shoot, and cf. Shittle, Skittles.]

1. An instrument used in weaving for passing or shooting the thread of the woof from one side of the cloth to the other between the threads of the warp. Like shuttles through the loom, so swiftly glide My feathered hours. Sandys.

2. The sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which carries the lower thread through a loop of the upper thread, to make a lock stitch.

3. A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal. [R.] Shuttle box (Weaving), a case at the end of a shuttle race, to receive the shuttle after it has passed the thread of the warp; also, one of a set of compartments containing shuttles with different colored threads, which are passed back and forth in a certain order, according to the pattern of the cloth woven.

– Shutten race, a sort of shelf in a loom, beneath the warp, along which the shuttle passes; a channel or guide along which the shuttle passes in a sewing machine.

– Shuttle shell (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of marine gastropods of the genus Volva, or Radius, having a smooth, spindle- shaped shell prolonged into a channel at each end.

Shut"tle, v. i.

Definition: To move backwards and forwards, like a shuttle. I had to fly far and wide, shutting athwart the big Babel, wherever his calls and pauses had to be. Carlyle.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition

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