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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