shuttles

Noun

shuttle (plural shuttles)

1. A tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom.
   • My dayes are ſwifter then a weauers ſhuttle, and are ſpent without hope.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Job 7:6
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.2004, Dawn of the Dead, 1:14:20
5. Any other item that moves repeatedly back and forth between two positions, possibly transporting something else with it between those points (such as, in chemistry, a molecular shuttle).
6. A shuttlecock.

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