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shut⋅tle

[shuht-l] noun, verb, -tled, -tling.
–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, esp. a short route or one connecting two transportation systems.
4. shuttlecock (def. 1).
5. (often initial capital letter) space shuttle.
–verb (used with object)
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.
–verb (used without object)
7. to move to and fro: constantly shuttling between city and suburb.

Origin:
bef. 900; ME shotil (n.), OE scytel dart, arrow; c. ON skutill harpoon; akin to shut, shoot


shut⋅tle⋅like, adjective
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shuttle  (v.)
1550, "move rapidly to and fro," from shuttle (n.); sense of "transport via a shuttle service" is recorded from 1930.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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