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shuttle-box

shuttle-box is the alternative form of shuttle box.

Meaning of shuttle box

Noun

shuttle box (plural shuttle boxes)

  1. A box fitted to the ends of the race on a loom to help direct a flying shuttle and its driver.
  2. An apparatus used in experiments on animals, with two electrifiable chambers connected by a hole.

Forms of shuttle-box

pluralshuttle-boxes

Questions about shuttle-box

What is shuttle-box the alternative form of?
Shuttle-box is the alternative form of shuttle box.

Words near shuttle-box in the dictionary

  1. shuttle run
  2. shuttle runs
  3. shuttle trade
  4. shuttle vector
  5. shuttle vectors
  6. shuttle-box
  7. shuttle-boxes
  8. shuttle-driver
  9. shuttle-drivers
  10. shuttlebay
  11. shuttlebays

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