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Meaning
Noun
●
In Weaving:
A
tool
used to
carry
the
woof
back and forth
between the
warp
threads
on a loom.
●
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 or more places.
●
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.
Verb
●
To go
back and forth
between two places.
●
To
transport
by
shuttle
or
by means of
a
shuttle
service.
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Origin
shuttle
English
scytel
Old English (ca. 450-1100)
Sourced from
Etym
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