Meaning of Shuttle | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom.
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 transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two or more places.
4. Such a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle.
5. 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).
6. A shuttlecock.
7. A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.

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Examples

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

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

“By placing the sword edgewise, the weaver keeps the countershed open⟳, in order⟳ to shoot⟳ through the shuttle.”

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

“And until December 2010 the northern stretch⟳ of the 'Extension' featured a charming side-show: the Chesham Shuttle. [...] But the people of Chesham moaned about the shuttle: the waiting room at Chalfont & Latimer was too hot, or too cold; there were leaves on the line. [...] On 12 Dec 2010 the shuttle ceased operations and Metropolitan trains began to terminate at both Amersham and Chesham.”

“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.”

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