SHUTTLE

Shuttle

A shuttle is a tool designed to neatly and compactly store or a holder that carries the thread across the loom weft yarn while weaving. Shuttles are thrown or passed back and forth through the shed, between the yarn threads of the warp in order to weave in the weft.

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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.
  4. 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).
  5. A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.

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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