noun, verb, -tled, -tling.| 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, esp. a short route or one connecting two transportation systems. |
| 4. | shuttlecock (def. 1). |
| 5. | (often initial capital letter ) space shuttle. |
| 6. | to cause (someone or something) to move to and fro or back and forth by or as if by a shuttle: They shuttled me all over the seventh floor. |
| 7. | to move to and fro: constantly shuttling between city and suburb. |
| 1. | Also called shuttle. the object that is struck back and forth in badminton and battledore, consisting of a feathered cork head and a plastic crown. |
| 2. | the game of battledore. |
| 3. | to send or bandy to and fro like a shuttlecock. |
| 4. | to move or be bandied to and fro. |
| 5. | of such a state or condition: a shuttlecock existence. |