shuttle
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[edit] English
[edit] Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ʌtəl
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[edit] Etymology
From Old English scytel (“‘dart, arrow’”), from Proto-Germanic *skutilaz (compare Old Norse skutill (“‘harpoon’”)), from *skut- (“‘project’”) (see shoot). Name for loom weaving instrument, recorded from 1338, is from a sense of being "shot" across the threads. The back-and-forth imagery inspired the extension to "passenger trains" in 1895, aircraft in 1942, and spacecraft in 1969, as well as older terms such as shuttlecock.
[edit] Noun
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shuttle (plural shuttles)
- A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two places.
- The part of a loom that carries the woof back and forth between the warp threads
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to shuttle (third-person singular simple present shuttles, present participle shuttling, simple past and past participle shuttled)
- To go back and forth between two places.
[edit] Italian
[edit] Etymology
[edit] Noun
shuttle m. inv.

