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shuttlebox

shuttlebox 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 shuttlebox

pluralshuttleboxes

Questions about shuttlebox

What is shuttlebox the alternative form of?
Shuttlebox is the alternative form of shuttle box.

Words near shuttlebox in the dictionary

  1. shuttle-boxes
  2. shuttle-driver
  3. shuttle-drivers
  4. shuttlebay
  5. shuttlebays
  6. shuttlebox
  7. shuttleboxes
  8. shuttlebus
  9. shuttlebuses
  10. shuttlecock
  11. shuttlecock diplomacies

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