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Webster 1913 Edition
Shuttle
Shut′tle
,Noun.
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
My feathered hours.
shuttles
through the loom, so swiftly glideMy 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
(Zool.)
, 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
,Verb.
I.
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.
Webster 1828 Edition
Shuttle
SHUT'TLE
,Noun.
Definition 2024
shuttle
shuttle
English
Noun
shuttle (plural shuttles)
- (weaving) The part of a loom that carries the woof back and forth between the warp threads.
- Sandys
- Like shuttles through the loom, so swiftly glide / My feathered hours.
- Sandys
- 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.
- 2004, Dawn of the Dead, 1:14:20:
- You're saying we take the parking shuttles, reinforce them with aluminum siding and then head to the gun store where our friend Andy plays some cowboy-movie, jump-on-the-wagon bullshit.
- 2004, Dawn of the Dead, 1:14:20:
- 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 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.
Translations
part of a loom
transport service
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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.
Translations
to go back and forth
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to transport by shuttle
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Derived terms
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