shutters

Noun

shutter (plural shutters)

1. One who shuts or closes something.
   • the openers and shutters of the sluices we believe are basic to the history of mind1980, Max Scheler, translated by Manfred S. Frings, Problems of a Sociology of Knowledge
2. (plural-normally) Each of a series of protective panels, usually wooden, placed over windows to block out the light.
3. A similar screen used as an improvised stretcher to carry someone wounded or sick.
   • [T]he other fiddler had been carried home, exhausted, on a shutter.1843 December 19, Charles Dickens, “(please specify the page number)”, in A Christmas Carol. […], London: Chapman & Hall, […], →OCLC
4. The part of a camera, normally closed, that opens for a controlled period of time to let light in when taking a picture.
5. Any other opening and closing device.
   • A service hatch with sliding shutter is situated at the end of the kitchen next to the dining compartment. […] A shutter, in three parts, is fitted, which when lowered completely encloses the bar.1950 June, “New Restaurant and Buffet Cars, G.N.R.(I.)”, in Railway Magazine, pages 415, 416
6. A panel used to contain freshly poured concrete, which is usually removed when the concrete hardens.
   • The vertical wall was poured in two lifts, using two pairs of steel shutters which were bolted tightly onto 9-in. long wooden spacers.1959 December, Richard Hope, “Narrow Gauge Landslip”, in Railway Magazine, page 866

   Synonyms:

   shuttering

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