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▪ I. shuttle, n.1|ˈʃʌt(ə)l|
Forms: 1 sciutil, scytel, 4–9 (now dial.) shittle, 5 shotil, shetil, schytle, schetyl(le, s(c)hutylle, 6 shetyll, shuttyll, shyttel(l, shittell, shettle, shoottle, 7 shutle, shuttel, 6– shuttle.
[OE. scytel ? masc.:—prehistoric *skutil f. Teut. root *skut-: see shoot v. Cf. ON. skutill harpoon; also Sw., Da. skyttel (of obscure history) and Da. skytte, Norw. skyt, skjøt = sense 2 below.]
†1. OE. A dart, missile, arrow. Obs.
c875Erfurt Gloss. 1177 Jaculum, sciutil. c1000Ags. Ps. (Thorpe) lxiii. 7 Syndon hyre wita scytelum cilda æᵹhwæs onlicost.
2. a. An instrument used in weaving for passing the thread of the weft to and fro from one edge of the cloth to the other between the threads of the warp. fly shuttle (see fly n.2 8).
The normal form of the shuttle resembles that of a boat, whence its name in various langs. (L. navicula, F. navette, G. weberschiff). Along the middle is an axis or ‘spindle’, on which revolves the ‘quill’ or ‘bobbin’, a cylinder carrying the thread of the weft.
1338in Dugdale Monasticon (1819) II. 585/2 Item pro weblomes emptis xxs... Item pro iiij shittles pro eodem opere ijs vjd. c1400York Memorandum Bk. (Surtees) I. 85 Cum instrumento dicti artificii vocato shotil. 14..Nom. in Wr.-Wülcker 728/15 Hec navecula, schetylle. 1483Cath. Angl. 338/2 A Schutylle (v.r. shvtylle), nauicula, panus. 1510Stanbridge Vocabula (W. de W.) C j b, Pecten, the shuttyll. 1570Levins Manip. 195/40 A shuttle, radius. 1577Hanmer Anc. Eccl. Hist., Evagrius iv. vii. (1585) 473 A weauers shittell. 1585Wither ABC for Laymen 131 The sliding to and fro of the shettle in weauing. 1613Purchas Pilgrimage (1614) 736 The Fishers Boats are made like to a Weauers Shutle. 1676Hobbes Iliad xxii. 444 She trembling stood, and let her Shittle fall. 1714Gay Sheph. Wk. Prol. 71 Ye Weavers, all your Shuttles throw. 1831G. R. Porter Silk Manuf. 221 The shuttle is formed from a piece of boxwood. 1908[Miss E. Fowler] Betw. Trent & Ancholme 84 John's loom and shuttle could be heard.
b. fig. and in similative use.
1598Shakes. Merry W. v. i. 25, I fear not Goliah with a Weauers beame, because I know also, life is a Shuttle. 1742Young Nt. Th. iv. 809 How swift the shuttle flies, that weaves thy shroud. 1844Emerson Lect., Young Amer. Wks. (Bohn) II. 293 The locomotive and the steamboat like enormous shuttles shoot every day across the thousand various threads of national descent. 1896Kipling Seven Seas 4 Swift shuttles of an Empire's loom that weave us, main to main. 1896A. Austin England's Darling ii. iv, When War's loud shuttle shall have woven peace.
3. transf.
a. A thread-carrying device in the form of a weaver's shuttle, used for knotting, tatting and embroidery.
1767Mrs. Delany Lett. 4 Jan., Ser. ii. (1862) I. 91 Mrs. Jeffreys has bought me a very elegant shuttle for two guineas. 1770Mrs. Ravaud Let. to Mrs. Delany 10 Nov. ibid. 309, I want to know if the inclosed knotting is what you would have it... Its merit..is entirely owing to the instrument with which it is fabricated, the nonpareille shuttle of singular service. 1882Caulfeild & Saward Dict. Needlework 476 [Recent improvements in Tatting.] The use of a second thread or Shuttle, which enables straight lines and scallops to be worked, as well as the original ovals.
b. A reciprocating thread-holder in a sewing-machine, which carries the lower thread through the loop of the upper one to make a lock-stitch.
1846in Abridgm. Specif. Patents, Sewing (1871) 10 [The] application of a shuttle, in combination with a needle. 1860Ure's Dict. Arts III. 647 A small shuttle, which has a horizontal motion beneath the cloth, is now caused to pass through this loop, carrying with it its own thread. 1875Knight Dict. Mech. 2116/2 The [Singer sewing-] machine makes a lock-stitch by means of a straight eye-pointed needle and a longitudinally reciprocating shuttle.
c. In a telephone (see quot.).
1879Prescott Sp. Telephone 388 One of its coils is connected..to a V-shaped piece of metal, termed the shuttle, which, in its normal position, rests with one end against an adjustable screw.
d. A curved type-bar (in some typewriters) guided into position by a race.
1911in Webster.
4. A shuttlecock. Also the game. Now only in Badminton.
c1440Promp. Parv. 447/1 Schytle, chyldys game, sagitella. a1591H. Smith Serm. (1622) 252 Or like unto a Shittle, which flittereth from the hand of a child. 1895Official Laws Badminton 11.
†5. = radius n. 1 c. Obs. rare—1.
Perh. only a mistranslation of L. radius, one sense of which is ‘weaver's shuttle’.
1662Comenius' Janua Ling. Triling. 48 One arm bone; two of the elbow, (the ell and shuttle).
6.
†a. A trochoid shell (see quot. 1750). Obs.
b. In full weaver's shuttle, a shuttle-shell, esp. Radius volva; also, the shell of this gastropod.
1750Pococke Trav. (Camden) 46 Trochi entrochi... The trochi are many of them like shuttles..some are an oblong oval, which they call shuttles: the country people call them fairy stones. 1815Burrow Elem. Conchol. 199 Bulla Volva. Weaver's Shuttle. B. Birostris. Bastard Weaver's Shuttle. B. Gibbosa. Short gibbous Shuttle; the Gondola. 1861P. P. Carpenter in Rep. Smithsonian Instit. 1860, 195 The Weaver's Shuttle (Radius volva). Ibid. 196 The creature folds its foot round the Gorgonias on which it lives, carrying its shuttle gracefully over its head.
7. A book name for certain species of moths.
1832J. Rennie Butterfl. & Moths 51 The Shuttle (Agrotis radia, Curtis)... Probably a variety of A. Radiola... The small Shuttle (A. Radiola, Stephens) appears in June.
8. a. A shuttle-train (see 9 b).
1895in Funk's Stand. Dict.
b. A shuttle service of aircraft; esp. one operated by an airline for which reservation of seats is not a requirement; an aircraft flying on such a service.
1942[see shuttle route, sense 9 a below]. 1944,1961[see shuttle service, sense 9 b below]. 1964Mrs. L. B. Johnson White House Diary 9 Apr. (1970) 104, I could have caught a much later plane if I could only have ridden the shuttle. 1971R. Thomas Backup Men x. 84, I got in line for the Eastern shuttle... It's rumored that if Eastern doesn't have a seat for you on its regular shuttle to New York, it will roll out a special plane just for you. 1973Daily Tel. 11 Sept. 6/4 British Caledonian is to extend its low fare ‘Moonjet Service’—Britain's first no-reservation walk-on, walk-off shuttle—to Belfast. 1977Time 10 Oct. 4/1 Freddie Laker's bargain-basement transatlantic shuttle, the no-frills, no-reservations Skytrain, was finally aloft, carrying passengers between London and New York at the rock-bottom round-trip fare of $236. 1978R. Ludlum Holcroft Covenant xiii. 153 The shuttles to Paris were frequent, the customs procedures lax.
c. More fully, space shuttle. A space rocket with wings enabling it to land like an aircraft and be used repeatedly.
Quot. 1960 is fictional.
1960‘J. Wyndham’ in New Worlds Nov. 41 The acceleration in that shuttle would spread you all over the floor. 1969New Scientist 5 June 513/2 NASA has announced the formation of task groups to look into..a re-usable low-cost ‘Space Shuttle’ to relay men and materials to and from the [space] station... The space shuttle.. would be fired off vertically, shed its fuel tanks and, upon return, land horizontally at an airport. Ibid. 2 Oct. 7/1 Another shuttle plying on a regular basis between Cape Kennedy and this large space laboratory. 1972National Observer (U.S.) 27 May 6/3 The shuttle's primary mission is to carry satellites into earth orbit and release them, at a cost below that of the expendable rockets now used to launch satellites. 1981Daily Tel. 15 Apr. 1 The American space shuttle landed on a dry lake bed in California's Mojave Desert yesterday to complete the maiden flight of the first re-usable rocketship.
d. A series of journeys for the purpose of shuttle diplomacy (see sense 9 b below).
1975Daily Tel. 29 Aug. 24/3 (heading) Raid as peace shuttle nears end. Ibid., Dr. Kissinger completed the last legs of his Middle East shuttle yesterday. 1977Time 17 Jan. 30 It was a diplomatic shuttle, but not exactly in the Kissinger mode. Ibid., Thus [Ivor] Richard's shuttle has been dubbed by some officials and journalists in southern Africa a safari of salvation.
9. attrib. and Comb.
a. Obvious combs. (Senses 2 and 3) as shuttle-driver, shuttle-maker, shuttle-quill, shuttle-winder; (sense 6) as shuttle-tribe; (sense 8) shuttle bus, shuttle flight, shuttle plane, shuttle raid, shuttle rocket, shuttle route, shuttle ship; also shuttle-shaped adj., shuttlewise adv.
1951Sun (Baltimore) 18 May 3/1 The cars—some are called ‘*shuttle busses’ because they operate from the West (executive offices) Wing to the East Wing [of the White House]—carry messengers too. 1972Times 8 June 7/2 Traffic jams..that officials hoped would be averted by the bicycles and shuttle buses. 1979United States 1980/81 (Penguin Travel Guides) 259 During the summer, a shuttlebus runs from the lakefront to the courthouse.
1801Encycl. Brit. Suppl. II. 796/1 From its lower end there go two small cords to the *shuttle drivers.
1944News (Tuscaloosa, Ala.) 25 June 1/3 Three crewmen also were lost as a result of the attack on the fields, apparently those used by Italian based and Britain-based bombers in the *shuttle flights over Axis targets. 1961N.Y. Times 10 May 90/5 The shuttle flights between the two pairs of cities carried 6,147 passengers in their first week... Passengers arriving by bus, cab or car would be able to step out at the terminal door within 150 feet of the shuttle planes. 1977New Yorker 19 Sept. 40/1 She had to drive home alone, while he took a shuttle flight in the opposite direction.
1412in Riley Mem. Lond. (1868) 584 [William Blakeney] *shetil⁓maker.
1944Britannica Bk. Year 770/1 Shuttle, combining form. Involving vehicles, especially aircraft, making repeated trips between fixed points, as..‘shuttle raid’, ‘*shuttle plane’. 1961[see shuttle flight above]. 1976J. Crosby Nightfall xii. 68 [He] left for the shuttle plane to New York.
1661Petty in Birch Hist. Roy. Soc. (1756) I. 59 To which purpose there is somewhat considerable in the winding the yarn upon these *shuttle-quills.
1943Time 18 Oct. 85/1 The..pilot flew on his first mission eight weeks ago, joined the first *shuttle raid on Germany, flew safely to Africa, [etc.]. 1953J. N. Leonard Flight into Space 87 They say that von Braun's great *shuttle rockets—to say nothing of his space station—would surely fail.
1942R.A.F. Jrnl. 30 May 22 The danger zone, which is the *shuttle route of the German Focke-Wulf Condors.
1802Bingley Anim. Biog. (1813) II. 224 The eyes are lodged in a *shuttle⁓shaped band of black. 1869E. Newman Brit. Moths 317 The Shuttle-shaped Dart (Agrotis puta).
1959Amazing Stories June 12/1 Hubbard visited the spaceport..and watched the *shuttle-ships come and go.
1861P. P. Carpenter in Rep. Smithsonian Instit. 1860, 196 None of the Cowry or *Shuttle tribe have any operculum.
a1877Knight Dict. Mech. III. 2171/2 *Shuttle-winder, a device for winding a shuttle, such as the round shuttle of the Wheeler and Wilson sewing-machine, or a tatting-shuttle.
1879Howells Lady of Aroostook iii. 38 The ferryboats thrust *shuttlewise back and forth between either shore made a refreshing sound.
b. Special comb.: † shuttle armature Electr., an armature having a single coil wound upon an elongated iron former shaped like a shuttle (obs.); shuttle-bearer, the lay or batten of a loom; shuttle bombing, bombing carried out by planes taking off from one base and landing at another; so shuttle bomber; shuttle-bone, † (a) each of the bones of the forearm; (b) the navicular bone in the foot of a horse; shuttle-box, † (a) the cavity in the side of a shuttle to hold the spindle (obs.); (b) ‘a tray or case at the end of the shuttle-race to receive the shuttle’ (Knight Dict. Mech. 1875); shuttle car, a vehicle for making frequent short journeys, spec. one for the underground haulage of coal; shuttle-carrier, the arm or other device which reciprocates the shuttle in a sewing-machine; shuttle-crab, a paddle-crab, Callinectes hastatus (Cent. Dict. 1891); shuttle diplomacy, diplomatic activity involving a series of journeys to and fro, esp. by a mediator travelling between disputing parties; hence shuttle diplomat; shuttle-kissing (see quot.); † shuttle-prick, the spindle of a shuttle; shuttle-race, the ledge or track along which the shuttle passes; shuttle service, a service of shuttle-trains; more widely, any transport service in which vehicles or aircraft travel to and fro between fixed points at frequent intervals; shuttle-shell, a gastropod of the genus Radius; † shuttle-spire, ? = shuttle-prick; shuttle-train, a train running a short distance to and fro, as on a short branch line; † shuttle-trough = shuttle-box (a); † shuttle-wound armature Electr. = shuttle armature above (obs.).
1890Slingo & Brooker Electr. Engin. viii. 241 That the design of the *shuttle armature is faulty may easily be proved, for, after being rotated for a little time, the iron shuttle or core gets quite warm. 1924S. R. Roget Dict. Elect. Terms 226/2 Shuttle armature, a simple form of armature now rarely used, except in very small machines, with a single coil connected to a two-part commutator and lying in the two broad slots in an elongated core built up of stampings in the shape of an H with rounded sides. Also called Siemens ‘H’ armature.
1835Ure Philos. Manuf. 350 Exercising their arms and shoulders..by resting their hands on the lay or *shuttle⁓bearer.
1944Yank 28 July 7 They are not *shuttle bombers, and they did not fly from Italy to Russia intentionally. 1944Newsweek 10 Jan. 27 Last summer the RAF and the Eighth both tried *shuttle bombing. 1954Times 10 Aug. 4/1 The city may be important for another reason—as one end of a shuttle-bombing route similar to those which worked so effectively in Europe.
1688Holme Armoury ii. xvii. 417/2 The Cubitus..doth consist of two Bones; the *Shuttle Bones. 1832Percivall Anat. Horse 60 The Navicular or Shuttle Bone (Os Naviculare). 1688*Shuttle box [see shuttle trough below]. 1888Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 464/1 (Weaving), A ledge..which forms the ‘shuttle race’ for carrying the shuttle in ‘picking’ from and to the shuttle boxes at each end of the lay.
1905Calkins & Holden Mod. Advertising v. 89 They also have many *shuttle cars, or [street]cars that make short runs. 1956Atkinson & White in D. L. Linton Sheffield 276 The shuttle cars transport the ore to the main-road conveyors which discharge the ironstone at the surface into wagons. 1979Jrnl. R. Soc. Arts CXXVII. 89/2 Rubber tyred shuttle cars can be used from the continuous miner to the main transport system if the floor is hard enough.
1860Ure's Dict. Arts III. 649 (Sewing-machine), At the commencement of the return of the shuttle, an inclined piece upon the *shuttle carrier bears against a lateral stud upon one end of a short rocking or oscillatory shaft.
1974Between Lines (Newtown, Pa.) 15 Feb. 2/3 So beware of an over-celebration of Kissinger's *shuttle diplomacy, heroic as it's been. 1976Birmingham Post 16 Dec. 2/5 Mr. Richard plans a round of ‘shuttle diplomacy’ in Southern Africa seeking support for more direct British involvement in the decolonisation of Rhodesia. 1979H. Kissinger White House Years p. xxi, The October 1973 Middle East war and the ‘shuttle diplomacy’ that followed.
1977Time 13 June 80 Or consider Henry Kissinger. Understandably, Citizen K's style has changed perceptibly from that of the *shuttle diplomat.
1908Bath Daily Chron. 22 Apr. 1/7 The practice known as ‘*shuttle-kissing’—sucking the weft through the eye of the Shuttle. 1688*Shuttle prick [see shuttle trough below].
1831G. R. Porter Silk Manuf. 216 A shelf, called the *shuttle-race, is formed by making the bottom bar broader than the side rails. 1868Morris Earthly Par. i. ii. 378 (Cupid & Psyche), As I drove The ivory shuttle through the shuttle-race. 1871Abridgm. Specif. Patents, Sewing 14 Sewing by means of a vibrating needle and a shuttle travelling in a circular shuttle-race.
1892Q. Rev. Oct. 486 The South-Eastern used, twenty years back, to run a ‘*shuttle’ service every ten minutes between Charing Cross and Cannon St. 1905Westm. Gaz. 3 July 6/3 This ‘shuttle’ service of electric trains. 1933Times 28 Feb. 9/4 Shuttle services from the outer districts connecting with the trunk and City routes can be substituted for through services from the suburbs to the City. 1944A. Jacob Traveller's War xxviii. 419 It is the same kind of non-stop bombing shuttle service with which Conyngham, the A.O.C. Western Desert, achieved such great results in Africa. 1961Wall St. Jrnl. 20 Mar. 2/3 Eastern Airlines said it wants to start a low-cost air ‘shuttle’ service between Boston, New York and Washington. 1966‘H. MacDiarmid’ Company I've Kept viii. 189 About..the..date of my birthday, Biggar Post Office had to run what was virtually a shuttle-service several times a day to deliver the masses of mail. 1969Guardian 18 Jan. 1/4 We can expect to see a permanent Russian space station in orbit.., probably with a shuttle service of Russian scientists from earth. 1978Detroit Free Press 5 Mar. d. 16/3 It is more a commercial than a resort hotel, but it has a pool and runs a daily shuttle service to nearby public beaches for guests.
1861P. P. Carpenter in Rep. Smithsonian Instit. 1860, 195 Family Ovulidæ. (Egg and *Shuttle Shells.)
1744in Phil. Trans. (1746) XLIII. 194 There was extracted from him..an iron *Shuttle Spire, four Inches long.
1888A. R. Diehl Two Thousand Words 190 *Shuttle-train, one that takes short runs back and forth. 1923World Almanac 503/2 A shuttle train runs between 50th Street and 59th Street on Sixth Avenue. 1942Sun (Baltimore) 7 Mar. 20 When loss of tires has forced the automobile from use, shuttle trains, supplemented by busses, will be the most practical..means for the transportation of workers in this area. 1974Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XV. 494/2 In 1965 the first Freightliner container..shuttle trains began running on British Railways.
1688Holme Armoury iii. 289/1 The parts of a Shuttle are, the *Shuttle Trough, or Box, is the square hole on the top of it, in which the Pin or Shuttle Prick is set within two holes having Yarn..wound about it.
1893G. Kapp Dynamos, Alternators, & Transformers ix. 209 The simplest example of an open-coil armature is the so-called *shuttle-wound armature. 1902Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 577/1 The second or drum method was used in the original ‘shuttle-wound’ armatures invented by Dr. Werner von Siemens in 1856.
▸ shuttlecraft n. (plural unchanged) a vehicle used as a shuttle; (esp. in Science Fiction) a spacecraft used as a shuttle.
1950N.Y. Times 1 Apr. 4/6 Communist authorities in Shanghai had prohibited the use of the LST's as *shuttle craft to the General Gordon, which was prevented by the danger of mines from entering the harbour. 1967E. Hamilton Weapon from Beyond 150 They marched across the blowing sand and into the golden shuttle-craft that would take them to the rescue ship. 1992J. Creighton Oil on Troubled Waters (BNC) 70 When the Liberian shuttle tanker Medusa was hit on 10 June 1986, it was its third hit in nine months. The insurance market identified shuttle craft as the most vulnerable in the Gulf and raised premiums accordingly. 2001Evening Chron. (Newcastle) (Electronic ed.) 4 Apr. Annoyed that Tempest does not listen to her, the science officer makes good her escape on the ship's only shuttlecraft.
▪ II. † ˈshuttle, n.2 Obs.
Forms: α. 1 scyt(t)el, scetel, 4 ssettel, 5 schettel, schyt(t)yl; β. 1 scyttels, scyttyls, scytels, scettels, 2 scutles.
[OE. scyt(t)el, scyt(t)els:—prehistoric *skutil, -isli, f. *skut- in scyttan to shut; the two OE. words have different suffixes, but their forms coalesced in ME.: see -el, -els. Cf. WFris. skoattel, EFris. schötel, NFris. sködel.
The mod. dial. shuttle (shittle, shettle, shottle) horizontal bar of a gate (see Eng. Dial. Dict.), is perh. the same word.]
1. A bolt or bar, as of a door.
971Blickl. Hom. 87 Ealle þa isenan scyttelas helle loca wurdan tobrocene. a1000Kent. Gloss. 658 in Haupt's Zeitschr. (1877) IX. 55 Scetel, vectis. c1000ælfric Hom. I. 70 Ða scytelses [v.r. scittelsas] to burston. a1023Wulfstan Hom. (1883) 230 Openiað þas ᵹeatu and þa fæstan scytelsas. c1175Lamb. Hom. 127 Þet is þet [loc] þeðe deofel ne con unlucan, þet is þet scutles þeðe deofel ne mei nefre to-cysan. 1340Ayenb. 94 ‘My zoster, my lemman, þou art a gardin besset, myd tuo ssettles,’ þet is þe grace of god, and of angles. c1440Promp. Parv. 365/1 Ondoynge, or op(y)nynge of schettellys, or sperellys. Ibid. 447/1 Schyttyl, or sperynge, pessulum, vel pessellum.
2. ? A shutter or a partition.
1614T. Godwin Rom. Antiq. xviii. 15 By the drawing aside of some wainscot shuttles..a newe partition might seeme to be put vp.
▪ III. shuttle, n.3|ˈʃʌt(ə)l|
Forms: 5 schetel, 6, 9 dial. shittle, 8– shuttle.
[f. shut v. + -le.
It is uncertain whether the word represents OE. scyttel, scyttels (see prec.) in an unrecorded sense, or was a new formation in ME.]
1. A flood-gate which opens to allow the flow and regulate the supply of water in a mill-stream. Also a similar gate in a drain. Also ‘one of the sections of a shutter-dam’ (Cent. Dict. 1891).
c1440Promp. Parv. 445/2 Schetelys, or gote, supra, aquagium. 1583Inquisition of Sewers 7 (N.W. Linc. Gloss.), The same sewer from the foresaid fields end to the shittle shall be diked, scowred and cleansed..by Mr. William Dalyson. 1738Phil. Trans. XLI. 167 The Miller..went immediately, and let down the Shuttle. 1812Nouaille in J. Nicholson's Oper. Mech. (1825) 111 The shuttle or gate slides upon the floor of the trough, so as to..determine the quantity of water to be let out upon the wheel. 1832Holderness Drainage Act 13 Stocks, shuttles and other works of drainage. 1845Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc. V. ii. 400 The sluices or cloughs used then being merely what now would be called shuttles. 1877N.W. Linc. Gloss., Shittle,..the shuttle of a drain. ‘The shittle agean th' fish-pond is o' no use noo.’ 1887Fishng Gaz. 2 Apr. 207/2 The..field..opposite the ‘shuttle’ or flood gate.
2. A small gate or stop through which metal is allowed to pass from the trough to the mould.
1858Simmonds Dict. Trade. 1875Knight Dict. Mech.
▪ IV. shuttle, n.4 Sc. and Devon.|ˈʃʌt(ə)l|
Also 7 schottlle, 7– shottle.
[Of doubtful origin: perh. f. shut v. + -le. Cf. prec.]
A small drawer, esp. one fixed in a chest, in which small articles were stored. Also ‘a kind of box in the upper part of a chest, extending across; used for keeping money’; also ‘a till in a shop, a money-box’ (Jam.).
1626Wedderburne Compt Bk. (S.H.S.) 142 Ane aikin frez pres with schottlles of aik thairin. 1699E. West Mem. (1865) 114, I thought they were like a cabinet full of shuttles and in every shuttle there was a jewel. 1719Hamilton Epist. to Ramsay i. 32 Gin that my haff-pay siller shottle Can safely spare it. 1815Scott Guy M. xxxviii, Those eyes..were now sharply and alertly darting their glances through shuttles, and trunks, and drawers, and cabinets, and all the odd corners of an old maiden lady's repositories. 1823― in Lockhart (1839) VII. 105 Like the inside of an antique cabinet with drawers and shottles and funny little arches. 1832A. E. Bray Tamar & Tavy (1836) III. xxxiv. 80 And I thought of the old names by which the little drawers and boxes in such [old cabinets] were called,—the shuttles. 1866R. Chambers Ess. Ser. i. 152 A set of docketed papers, tied up with red tape, and deposited in shottle fifteen. 1870J. K. Hunter Life Studies 158, I had three white half-croons in the shuttle o' my kist.
▪ V. ˈshuttle, a.
Variant of shittle a., unsteady, shaky, etc., surviving dial. (see Eng. Dial. Dict.).
1542Udall Erasm. Apoph. 307 b, Metellus was so shuttle⁓brained that even in the middes of his tribuneship he left his office in Roome. 1553Respublica v. ii. 85 (Brandl), That shuttle brained, tall, long man. 1602R. T. 5 Godlie Serm. 200 To some shallow heads, shuttle braines, and simple wits, it seemeth to be [etc.]. 1617Collins Def. Bp. Ely ii. x. 497 Howsoeuer our shuttle-pated Adioynder thinke of it. a1649MS. Poems temp. Chas. I (Halliw.), Nor can you deeme them shuttle-headed fellowes, Who for the Lord are so exceeding zealous. c1660Rump Songs I. 7 Is it not strange, that in that Shuttle-head Three Kingdoms ruines should be buried? c1682J. Collins Making Salt in Eng. 15 A mixture of harsh shuttle Sand. 1886W. Somerset Word-bk., Shuttle, quick, lithe, active... Also applied to any dry or easily slipping matter, as grain, seeds, sand, &c. 1888Stevenson Black Arrow i. ii, See there how shuttle-witted are these girls.
Hence † ˈshuttly adv., unsteadily.
1661Petty in Birch Hist. Roy. Soc. (1756) I. 59 To which purpose the quill is too short for the axis whereon it rowls, and moves as shuttley upon it as may be.
▪ VI. shuttle, v.|ˈʃʌt(ə)l|
In 6 shutle.
[Partly or perh. wholly f. shuttle n.; but possibly in part a frequentative f. shoot v.: see -le.]
1. a. trans. To move (a thing) briskly to and fro like a shuttle. Also, to throw swiftly. Obs. exc. dial.
1550Coverdale Spir. Perle xxxi. 260 He yt hath an heauy burthen vpon hys back, y⊇ more he shutleth and moueth y⊇ same, y⊇ more doeth it greue hym. 1823Galt Entail lxiv, He would hae grippit me by the cuff o' the neck and the back o' the breeks and shuttled me through the window. 1840Carlyle Let. 17 Mar. in Froude Life Lond. (1884) I. 177 A face of most extreme mobility, which he shuttles about..in a very singular manner while speaking. 1857Meredith Farina (1865) 52 Now general commotion shuttled them.
b. To transport in a vehicle or craft operating a shuttle service. Also transf.
1930E. Ferber Cimarron xxi. 334 With his geological knowledge..and his familiarity with the region, he was shuttled back and forth from one end of the state to the other. 1945Times 13 Sept. 5/7 There has been no difficulty about shuttling prisoners resident in the British and American zones. 1965Listener 30 Sept. 482/2 So what happens to the old patient? Does he or she get shuttled around to one hospital after another? 1971Nature 27 Aug. 632/1 That malate may serve to ‘shuttle’ reducing equivalents from cytoplasm to mitochondria. 1975Daily Tel. 1 May 1 Scores of transport aircraft shuttle Vietnamese evacuees from Guam, Wake Island, and the Philippines to America at the rate of up to 5,000 a day. 1977Offshore Engineer May 49/2 Two 15,000t tankers shuttle the oil to Spanish refineries. 1978H. Wouk War & Remembrance xiv. 148 Trains devoted to shuttling the Jews rolled eastward jam-packed and went back empty.
2. intr. To go or move backwards and forwards like a shuttle; to travel quickly to and fro. Also, to travel in one direction using a shuttle service. Also transf.
1823Galt Gilhaize lxxxiv, In the clear linn the trouts shuttled from stone and crevice. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. vi. i, Their corps go marching and shuttling, in the interior of the country. 1884Harper's Mag. July 270/1 It is as though a section of roadway shuttled to and fro between the shores. 1910Spectator 23 Apr. 666/2 Faster ships shuttle to and fro weaving the political web more and more rapidly. 1935M. M. Atwater Murder in Midsummer i. 6 A few automobiles, like overgrown beetles, shuttled back and forth along the concrete highways. 1966Aviation Week & Space Technol. 5 Dec. 95/1 Analyses could be made automatically or by astronauts shuttling from earth to the satellite laboratory, staying one month or more and then returning to earth. 1971‘A. Burgess’ MF iv. 42 He was not to be seen: perhaps he had shuttled off to Boston or somewhere. 1973Internat. Relations Dict. (U.S. Dept. State Library) 38/1 Henry Kissinger personally shuttled back and forth between Jerusalem and Cairo. 1975Sci. Amer. Jan. 13/3, I moved ‘temporarily’ to the University of Liverpool in 1965 and have shuttled between the departments of genetics and zoology ever since. 1977Time 15 Aug. 19/3 Although it was not on his original schedule, Vance decided to shuttle back to Amman, Damascus and Alexandria to convey Israeli views to Sadat and Assad. 1978R. Ludlum Holcroft Covenant xiii. 157 France's domestic airline shuttled about the country with splendid irregularity. 1979Sci. Amer. Jan. 29/1 (caption) The trains shuttle back and forth without being uncoupled, acting much like a conveyor belt.
3. Sc. To ply the shuttle, weave. (See Eng. Dial. Dict.)
Hence ˈshuttling ppl. a.
1860All Year Round No. 41. 344 The flutes began in a whirling, shuttling movement. |