Definitions from Wiktionary (shuttle)
▸ noun: (weaving) A tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom.
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two or more places.
▸ noun: Such a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle.
▸ noun: 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).
▸ noun: A shuttlecock.
▸ noun: A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.
▸ verb: (intransitive, transitive) To go or send back and forth between two places.
▸ verb: (transitive) To transport by shuttle or by means of a shuttle service.
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▸ noun: (weaving) A tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom.
▸ noun: 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.
▸ noun: A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two or more places.
▸ noun: Such a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle.
▸ noun: 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).
▸ noun: A shuttlecock.
▸ noun: A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.
▸ verb: (intransitive, transitive) To go or send back and forth between two places.
▸ verb: (transitive) To transport by shuttle or by means of a shuttle service.
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shuttlecock,
birdie,
bird,
shuttle driver,
shuttle race,
shuttle box,
woof,
token,
shoot,
picker,
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