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Definition of Shuttle
1. Noun. Badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers.
Generic synonyms: Badminton Equipment
Derivative terms: Shuttlecock
2. Verb. Travel back and forth between two points.
3. Noun. Public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that plies back and forth between two points.
4. Noun. Bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads.
Definition of Shuttle
1. n. 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.
2. v. i. To move backwards and forwards, like a shuttle.
Definition of Shuttle
1. to move or travel back and forth [v -TLED, -TLING, -TLES]
Medical Definition of Shuttle
1. 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 shuttles through the loom, so swiftly glide My 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. Shuttle box, 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. Origin: Also shittle, OE. Schitel, scytyl, schetyl; cf. OE. Schitel a bolt of a door, AS. Scyttes; all from AS. Sceotan to shoot; akin to Dan. Skyttel, skytte, shuttle, dial. Sw. Skyttel, skottel. See Shoot, and cf. Shittle, Skittles. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
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