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Uncommonshuttle
The correct spelling is shuttle.
How to pronounce shuttle
noun
Say it like: Shu-ttl-e
The correct spelling is shuttle. The part of a loom that carries the woof back and forth between the warp threads.
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Meanings
noun
- 1.The part of a loom that carries the woof back and forth between the warp threads.
- 2.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.
- 3.A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two places, sometimes more.
- 4.Such a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle.
- 5.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).
verb
- 1.To go back and forth between two places.
- 2.To transport by shuttle or by means of a shuttle service.
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