Shuttle

Quick meaning: Shuttle is a noun meaning (weaving) A tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom.

Meaning

(weaving) A tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom.

More Meanings

1. 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.
2. A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two or more places.
3. Such a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle.
4. A shuttlecock.
5. A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.
6. (intransitive, transitive) To go or send back and forth between two places.
7. 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).

Example Sentences

Guests can be shuttled to and from the hotel for no extra cost.

My dayes are ſwifter then a weauers ſhuttle, and are ſpent without hope.

The shuttle bus runs to the airport on a half-hourly basis from the central station.

Like shuttles through the loom, so swiftly glide My feather'd hours, and all my hopes deride!.

Word Forms

• shuttles
• shuttling
• shuttled

Synonyms for shuttle

Depending on context, synonyms include chauffeur, bird, birdie, shuttlecock.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include birdie, shuttlecock, bird, shift, mule, wagon.

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