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Shuttle
The part of a loom that carries the woof back and forth between the warp threads.
📖 Definitions of "Shuttle"
noun
- 1
The part of a loom that carries the woof back and forth between the warp threads.
- 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 places, sometimes more.
- 4
Such a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle.
verb
- 1
To go back and forth between two places.
- 2
To transport by shuttle or by means of a shuttle service.
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