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Definition of Shuttles
1. shuttle [v] - See also: shuttle
Lexicographical Neighbors of Shuttles
Literary usage of Shuttles
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Treatise on the Origin, Progressive Improvement, and Present State of the by George Richardson Porter (1831)
"The lay-cap and shuttles are here shown in a separate drawing. // represent the
shuttles, and m the handle, hy the reciprocating action of which the shoot ..."
2. A Cotton Fabrics Glossary by Frank P. Bennett, & Co (1914)
"These small shuttles have to correspond to the tie- up of the jacquard machines,
and vice versa. if a 600-jacquard machine is used with a tie-up of 100 ..."
3. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: A Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, and General by Thomas Spencer Baynes (1890)
"In the latter caso shuttles, or at least cops, equal in number to the different
colours ... It is obvious that tho repeated changing ef shuttles, sad Flo. ..."
4. Newton's London Journal of Arts and Sciences by William Newton (1866)
"The portion of the other patent alleged to have been infringed, was the mode of
actuating the shuttles by peg motions, or rack and pinion motions. ..."
5. Home Life in Colonial Days by Alice Morse Earle (1898)
"Apple-wood and boxwood were the choice for shuttles. Loom shuttles Smaller looms,
called tape-looms, braid-looms, belt-looms, garter-looms, ..."
6. The Weekly Reporter by Great Britain. Parliament. House of Lords, Great Britain. Privy Council, Great Britain. Supreme Court of Judicature (1897)
"HIGH COURT. by shuttles flying from looms in the appellants' factory > but to
what cause or causes the said accidents were to be attributed there was no ..."
7. Merchants' Magazine and Commercial Review by William B. Dana (1856)
"The usual way of working the shaft holding the elastic threads is to lift it up,
pass one of the shuttles through the warp, next drive it down, ..."
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