shuttle
//ˈʃʌtəl//
Forms
- Plural
- shuttles
- present (v1)
- shuttle
- past (v2)
- shuttled
- past participle (v3)
- shuttled
- present participle
- shuttling
- 3rd person singular
- shuttles
Definitions
1.A tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom.
- By placing the sword edgewise, the weaver keeps the countershed open, in order to shoot through the shuttle.
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.
- The shuttle bus runs to the airport on a half-hourly basis from the central station.
4.Such a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle.
- 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.
1.To go or send back and forth between two places.
2.To transport by shuttle or by means of a shuttle service.
- Guests can be shuttled to and from the hotel for no extra cost.
- It may get even busier in town when a sleek train service called the Brightline debuts this summer, shuttling travelers between nearby West Palm Beach and Miami.
Frequency
Overall
Rare· #4507
By learning goal
- Everyday conversation
- Rare
- General reading & writing
- Rare
- Academic
- Rare
- Literature
- Rare
Related words
Etymology
From a merger of two words:
* Middle English shutel, shotel, schetel, schettell, schyttyl, scutel (“bar; bolt”), from Old English sċyttel, sċutel (“bar; bolt”), equivalent to shut + -le