Definition, Meaning, Synonyms & Anagrams | English word SHUTTLE

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Definitions of SHUTTLE

1. 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.
2. A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two or more places.
3. Such a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle.
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 shuttlecock.
6. A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.
7. (weaving) A tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom.
8. (transitive) To transport by shuttle or by means of a shuttle service.
9. (intransitive, transitive) To go or send back and forth between two places.

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