Definitions for shuttles

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shuttles shut·tle

Spelling: [shuht-l]

IPA: /ˈʃʌt l/

Shuttles is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 149 anagrams from letters in shuttles (ehlssttu).

Definitions for shuttles

noun

1. a device in a loom for passing or shooting the weft thread through the shed from one side of the web to the other, usually consisting of a boat-shaped piece of wood containing a bobbin on which the weft thread is wound.
2. the sliding container that carries the lower thread in a sewing machine.
3. a public conveyance, as a train, airplane, or bus, that travels back and forth at regular intervals over a particular route, especially a short route or one connecting two transportation systems.
4. shuttlecock (def 1).
5. (often initial capital letter) space shuttle.

verb (used with object)

1. to cause (someone or something) to move to and fro or back and forth by or as if by a shuttle:

verb (used without object)

1. to move to and fro:

Origin of shuttles

before 900; Middle English shotil (noun), Old English scytel dart, arrow; cognate with Old Norse skutill harpoon; akin to shut, shoot^1<

Examples for shuttles

As we struggled to break 130 kph, he glanced at me and our black Peugeot shook like a shuttle on reentry.

The first shuttle flights with two crew members used ejection seats and full pressure suits.

Do you think you are going to make me run to and fro like a shuttle?

Once a day, she says, a shuttle bus took them into town, dropping them not so subtly near the train station.

The shuttle will be made by the carpenter; the awl by the smith or skilled person.

He used the Lear—which seated only six and had no bar—mostly to shuttle his pals between Los Angeles, Palm Springs, and Las Vegas.

We cut with a knife, we pierce with an awl, we weave with a shuttle, we name with a name.

And as a shuttle separates the warp from the woof, so a name distinguishes the natures of things.

The loom-girl in these parts is never too early at her harness and shuttle.

Back and forth between Washington and New York on that shuttle all the time.