shuttlen.¹

/ˈʃʌt(ə)l/

Forms: Old English sciutil, scytel, Middle English–1800s (now dialect) shittle, Middle English shotil, shetil, schytle, schetyl(le, s(c)hutylle, 1500s shetyll, shuttyll, shyttel(l, shittell, shettle, shoottle, 1600s shutle, shuttel, 1500s– shuttle.

Etymology: Old English scytel ? masculine < prehistoric *skutil < Germanic root *skut- : see shoot v. Compare Old Norse skutill harpoon; also Swedish, Danish skyttel (of obscure history) and Danish skytte , Norwegian skyt , skjøt = sense 2 below.

†1. Old English A dart, missile, arrow. Obsolete.

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c875 Erfurt Gloss. 1177 Jaculum, sciutil.

c1000 Ags. Ps. (1835) lxiii. 7 Syndon hyre wita scytelum cilda æghwæs onlicost.

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 Compounds 2).The normal form of the shuttle resembles that of a boat, whence its name in various languages (Latin navicula, French navette, German weberschiff). Along the middle is an axis or ‘spindle’, on which revolves the ‘quill’ or ‘bobbin’, a cylinder carrying the thread of the weft.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > loom > shuttle

shuttle1338

weaver's shuttle1538

1338 in W. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum (1819) II. 585/2 Item pro weblomes emptis xx^s... Item pro iiij shittles pro eodem opere ij^s vj^d.

14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 728/15 Hec navecula, schetylle.

c1400 in M. Sellers York Memorandum Bk. (1912) I. 85 Cum instrumento dicti artificii vocato shotil.

1483 Cath. Angl. 338/2 A Schutylle [v.r. shvtylle], nauicula, panus.

1510 J. Stanbridge Vocabula (W. de W.) C j b Pecten, the shuttyll.

1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Qii/2 A Shuttle, radius.

1577 M. Hanmer tr. Evagrius Scholasticus iv. vii, in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. 473 A weauers shittell.

1585 G. Wither A.B.C. for Laye-men 131 The sliding to and fro of the shettle in weauing.

1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 736 The Fishers Boats are made like to a Weauers Shutle.

1676 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Iliads xxii. 444 She trembling stood, and let her Shittle fall.

1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week Prol. Ye weavers, all your Shuttles throw.

1831 G. R. Porter Treat. Silk Manuf. 221 The shuttle is formed from a piece of boxwood.

1908 E. Fowler Between Trent & Ancholme 84 John's loom and shuttle could be heard.

b. figurative and in similative use.

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a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) v. i. 23 I feare not Goliah with a Weauers beame, because I know also, life is a Shuttle .

1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fourth 45 How swift the Shuttle flies, that weaves thy Shrowd?

1844 R. W. Emerson Young Amer. 4 The locomotive and the steamboat, like enormous shuttles, shoot every day across the thousand various threads of national descent.

1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 4 Swift shuttles of an Empire's loom that weave us, main to main.

1896 A. Austin England's Darling ii. iv. 61 When War's loud shuttle shall have woven peace.

3. transferred.

a. A thread-carrying device in the form of a weaver's shuttle, used for knotting, tatting and embroidery.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of ornamental textiles or trimmings > [noun] > knotting or tatting > equipment for

shuttle1767

shuttle-windera1877

the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > shuttle

shuttle1767

1767 Countess Cowper in M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. I. 91 Mrs. Jeffreys has bought me a very elegant shuttle for two guineas.

?1770 Mrs. Ravaud in M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. I. 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.

1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. 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.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > sewing > equipment for > sewing-machine > parts of or attachments for

presser bar1813

flat bed1819

shuttle1847

foot1854

looper1857

take-up1859

work holder1859

feller1860

shuttle-carrier1860

binder1865

braider1866

ruffler1868

presser foot1875

shuttle-windera1877

tension-device1877

thread-cutter1877

thread-oiler1877

tuck-creaser1877

tucking-gauge1877

tuck-marker1877

thread-guide1924

zipper foot1938

free arm1948

balance-wheel1961

tuck-folder-

1847 Brit. Patent 11,464 (1855) 2 The combination of a vibrating needle with a shuttle.

1860 R. Hunt Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 5) 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.

1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 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. 1879).

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1879 G. B. Prescott Speaking Telephone (new ed.) 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.

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1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Shuttle,..in some typewriters, a curved type bar guided into position by a race.

4. A shuttlecock. Also the game. Now only in Badminton.

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society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > battledore or badminton > [noun]

shuttlec1440

shuttlecock1601

battledore1719

badminton1863

society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > battledore or badminton > [noun] > shuttlecock

shuttlecocka1529

shuttlea1591

shuttle-corka1627

bird1890

birdie1926

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 447/1 Schytle, chyldys game, sagitella.

a1591 H. Smith Serm. (1622) 252 Or like unto a Shittle, which flittereth from the hand of a child.

1895 Official Laws Badminton 11.

†5. = radius n. 1b. Obsolete. rare.Perhaps only a mistranslation of Latin radius, one sense of which is ‘weaver's shuttle’.

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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bones of arm or leg > bones of arm > [noun] > bones of forearm > radius

speel-bone1307

cubit1398

wand-bone1488

radius1578

wand1634

shuttle1662

spoke-bonea1836

radius bone1910

1662 J. A. Comenius Janua Linguarum Trilinguis 48 One arm bone; two of the elbow, (the ell and shuttle).

†a. A trochoid shell (see quot. 1750). Obsolete.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Holostomata > family Trochidae > member of genus Trochus

topa1682

whirl1708

shuttle1750

trochus1753

trochoid1839

silver buckie?1841

trochid1861

1750 R. Pococke 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.

b. In full weaver's shuttle, a shuttle-shell, esp. Radius volva; also, the shell of this gastropod.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Cypraeidae > member of genus Radius

weaver's shuttle1815

shuttle-shell1861

1815 E. J. Burrow Elements Conchol. 199 Bulla Volva. Weaver's Shuttle. B. Birostris. Bastard Weaver's Shuttle. B. Gibbosa. Short gibbous Shuttle; the Gondola.

1861 P. P. Carpenter in Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1860 195 The Weaver's Shuttle (Radius volva).

1861 P. P. Carpenter in Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1860 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.

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1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 51 The Shuttle (Agrotis radia, Curtis)... Probably a variety of A. Radiola... The small Shuttle (A. Radiola, Stephens) appears in June.

a. A shuttle-train (see Compounds 2).

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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > train running short distance to and fro

shuttle-train1888

trip-train1894

shuttle1895

scoot1943

1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II.

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.

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society > travel > air or space travel > transport by air > [noun] > type of service

pool service1906

taxi service1908

air shuttle1928

shuttle1942

interlining1970

1942 [see shuttle route n. at Compounds 1c]. 1944 [see shuttle service n. at Compounds 2]. 1961 [see shuttle service n. at Compounds 2].

1964 Mrs. 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.

1971 R. 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.

1973 Daily 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.

1977 Time 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.

1978 R. Ludlum Holcroft Covenant xiii. 153 The shuttles to Paris were frequent, the customs procedures lax.

c. A space rocket with wings enabling it to land like an aircraft and be used repeatedly. Cf. space shuttle n. at space n.¹ Compounds 4.Quot. 1960 is fictional.

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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > [noun] > which can make repeated journeys

space shuttle1950

shuttle rocket1953

spaceplane1957

shuttle ship1959

shuttle1960

1960 ‘J. Wyndham’ in New Worlds Nov. 41 The acceleration in that shuttle would spread you all over the floor.

1969 New Scientist 2 Oct. 7/1 Another shuttle plying on a regular basis between Cape Kennedy and this large space laboratory.

1972 National 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.

1984 Science 13 July 146/2 A pressurized laboratory module designed for materials processing, and suitable for docking at the shuttle or at a space station.

d. A series of journeys for the purpose of shuttle diplomacy (see sense Compounds 2 below).

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society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > journeys to and fro for diplomacy

shuttle1975

society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > types of > series of journeys

shuttle1975

1975 Daily Tel. 29 Aug. 24/3 (heading) Raid as peace shuttle nears end.

1975 Daily Tel. 29 Aug. 24/3 Dr. Kissinger completed the last legs of his Middle East shuttle yesterday.

1977 Time 17 Jan. 30 It was a diplomatic shuttle, but not exactly in the Kissinger mode.

1977 Time 17 Jan. 30 Thus [Ivor] Richard's shuttle has been dubbed by some officials and journalists in southern Africa a safari of salvation.

Compounds

General attributive.

C1. Obvious combinations.

a. (Senses 2, 3.)

shuttle-driver n.

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1801 Encycl. Brit. Suppl. II. 796/1 From its lower end there go two small cords to the shuttle drivers.

shuttle-maker n.

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1412 in H. T. Riley Memorials London (1868) 584 [William Blakeney] shetil~maker.

shuttle-quill n.

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1661 W. Petty Making Cloth 27 Nov. in T. Birch Hist. Royal Soc. (1756) I. 59 To which purpose there is somewhat considerable in the winding the yarn upon these shuttle-quills.

shuttle-winder n.

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shuttle1767

shuttle-windera1877

presser bar1813

flat bed1819

shuttle1847

foot1854

looper1857

take-up1859

work holder1859

feller1860

shuttle-carrier1860

binder1865

braider1866

ruffler1868

presser foot1875

shuttle-windera1877

tension-device1877

thread-cutter1877

thread-oiler1877

tuck-creaser1877

tucking-gauge1877

tuck-marker1877

thread-guide1924

zipper foot1938

free arm1948

balance-wheel1961

tuck-folder-

a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. 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.

b. (In sense 6.)

shuttle-tribe n.

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1861 P. P. Carpenter in Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1860 196 None of the Cowry or Shuttle tribe have any operculum.

c. (In sense 8.)

shuttle bus n.

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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > public service vehicle > [noun] > omnibus > operating specific type of service

owl bus1856

school bus1872

telebus1942

shuttle bus1951

1951 Sun (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.

1972 Times 8 June 7/2 Traffic jams..that officials hoped would be averted by the bicycles and shuttle buses.

1979 United States 1980–1 (Penguin Travel Guides) 259 During the summer, a shuttlebus runs from the lakefront to the courthouse.

shuttle flight n.

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society > travel > air or space travel > [noun] > a flight through air or space > regular or repeated

milk round1865

milk run1909

shuttle flight1944

1944 News (Tuscaloosa, Alabama) 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.

1961 N.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.

1977 New Yorker 19 Sept. 40/1 She had to drive home alone, while he took a shuttle flight in the opposite direction.

shuttle plane n.

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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > aircraft for goods or passengers

liner1905

tramp1905

airliner1908

taxi1909

taxi plane1909

air ferry1916

air freighter1919

passenger plane1919

air taxi1920

freighter1920

flying boxcar1932

ferry1939

shuttle plane1944

day coach1945

feeder liner1946

charter1959

night coach1959

1944 Britannica 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 n.].

1976 J. Crosby Nightfall xii. 68 [He] left for the shuttle plane to New York.

shuttle raid n.

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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > type of

stooge1942

rhubarb1943

rhubarbing1943

shuttle raid1943

1943 Time 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.].

shuttle rocket n.

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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > [noun] > which can make repeated journeys

space shuttle1950

shuttle rocket1953

spaceplane1957

shuttle ship1959

shuttle1960

1953 J. 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.

shuttle route n.

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society > travel > air or space travel > specific movements or positions of aircraft > air as medium for operation of aircraft > [noun] > route through the air > types of

shuttle route1942

purple airway1955

purple zone1970

1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 30 May 22 The danger zone, which is the shuttle route of the German Focke-Wulf Condors.

shuttle ship n.

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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > [noun] > which can make repeated journeys

space shuttle1950

shuttle rocket1953

spaceplane1957

shuttle ship1959

shuttle1960

1959 Amazing Stories June 12/1 Hubbard visited the spaceport..and watched the shuttle-ships come and go.

shuttle-shaped adj.

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1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. II. 414 The eyes are lodged in a shuttle-shaped band of black.

1869 E. Newman Illustr. Nat. Hist. Brit. Moths 317 The Shuttle-shaped Dart (Agrotis puta).

shuttlewise adv.

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1879 W. D. Howells Lady of Aroostook iii. 38 The ferryboats thrust shuttlewise back and forth between either shore made a refreshing sound.

C2. Special combinations:

† shuttle armature n. Obsolete an armature (armature n. 4c) having a single coil wound upon an elongated iron former shaped like a shuttle (obsolete).

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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > motor > [noun] > armature of

armature1834

shuttle armature1890

shuttle-wound armature1893

slot winding1900

slotted armature1902

the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > armature > [noun] > types of

ring armature1873

drum winding1886

bar-armature1888

shuttle armature1890

shuttle-wound armature1893

slotted armature1902

1890 W. Slingo & A. 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.

1894 Work 20 Jan. 11/2 A laminated shuttle armature.

1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 579/1 The H-form ‘shuttle’ armature invented by Dr. Werner von Siemens.

1912 Motor Man. 46 The armature is, in practically every standard type, of the well-known ‘shuttle’ section.

1924 S. R. Roget Dict. Electr. 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.

shuttle-bearer n. the lay or batten of a loom.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > loom > lay or batten

lay1789

shuttle-bearer1835

1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 350 Exercising their arms and shoulders..by resting their hands on the lay or shuttle~bearer.

shuttle bomber n.

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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > used in warfare > bomber

raider1908

bomber1917

night bomber1918

dart1925

bomb-dropper1928

flying boxcar1932

bombing plane1934

bomber aircraft1935

medium bomber1935

dive-bomber1937

heavy1943

nuisance raider1944

shuttle bomber1944

atomic bomber1945

interdictor1965

stealth1979

1944 Yank 28 July 7 They are not shuttle bombers, and they did not fly from Italy to Russia intentionally.

shuttle bombing n. bombing carried out by planes taking off from one base and landing at another.

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society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > bombing raid > dropping of bombs > manner of

area bombardment1918

straddling1919

pattern-bombing1933

terror-bombing1933

dive-bombing1935

firebombing1935

blind-bombing1940

blitzing1940

coventrating1940

nuisance bombing1940

scatter bombing1940

coventration1942

carpet bombing1943

obliteration bombing1943

skip-bombing1943

shuttle bombing1944

atom bombing1945

atomic bombing1945

clobbering1948

loft-bombing1956

1944 Newsweek 10 Jan. 27 Last summer the RAF and the Eighth both tried shuttle bombing.

1954 Times 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.

shuttle-bone n. †(a) each of the bones of the forearm; (b) the navicular bone in the foot of a horse.

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the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bones of arm or leg > bones of arm > [noun] > bones of forearm

cubit1398

shuttle-bone1688

the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > foot or spec. foot > bone in

navicular?a1425

nut-bone1615

navicular bone1816

shuttle-bone1832

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xvii. 417/2 The Cubitus..doth consist of two Bones; the Shuttle Bones.

1832 W. Percivall Anat. Horse 60 The Navicular or Shuttle Bone (Os Naviculare).

shuttle-box n. †(a) the cavity in the side of a shuttle to hold the spindle (obsolete); (b) ‘a tray or case at the end of the shuttle-race to receive the shuttle’ (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1875).

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > loom > shuttle > cavity in side of

shuttle-trough1688

shuttle-box1888

1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 464/1 [article 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.

shuttle car n. a vehicle for making frequent short journeys, spec. one for the underground haulage of coal.

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society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > vehicle for underground haulage or transportation

tram1517

wagon1649

rolley1817

buggy1867

barney1874

hod1883

whirley1886

shuttle car1905

manrider1967

scooptram1967

society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > other vehicles according to specific use > [noun] > vehicle making frequent short journeys

shuttle car1905

1905 E. E. Calkins & R. Holden Art Mod. Advertising v. 89 They also have many shuttle cars, or [street]cars that make short runs.

1956 Atkinson & 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.

1979 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 127 89/2 Rubber tyred shuttle cars can be used from the continuous miner to the main transport system if the floor is hard enough.

shuttle-carrier n. the arm or other device which reciprocates the shuttle in a sewing machine.

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presser bar1813

flat bed1819

shuttle1847

foot1854

looper1857

take-up1859

work holder1859

feller1860

shuttle-carrier1860

binder1865

braider1866

ruffler1868

presser foot1875

shuttle-windera1877

tension-device1877

thread-cutter1877

thread-oiler1877

tuck-creaser1877

tucking-gauge1877

tuck-marker1877

thread-guide1924

zipper foot1938

free arm1948

balance-wheel1961

tuck-folder-

1860 R. Hunt Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 5) III. 649 [article 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.

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shuttle-crab n. a paddle-crab, Callinectes hastatus ( Cent. Dict. 1891).

shuttle diplomacy n. diplomatic activity involving a series of journeys to and fro, esp. by a mediator travelling between disputing parties.

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society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > types of

public diplomacy1856

gunboat diplomacy1927

total diplomacy1935

sputnik diplomacy1957

shuttle diplomacy1974

1974 Between Lines (Newtown, Pa.) 15 Feb. 2/3 So beware of an over-celebration of Kissinger's shuttle diplomacy, heroic as it's been.

1976 Birmingham 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.

1979 H. Kissinger White House Years p. xxi The October 1973 Middle East war and the ‘shuttle diplomacy’ that followed.

shuttle diplomat n.

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society > armed hostility > peace > pacification > peace treaty > [noun] > mediator

mediatorc1410

treater1489

parlementaire1853

parliamentary1855

shuttle diplomat1977

society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > types of > person

shuttle diplomat1977

1977 Time 13 June 80 Or consider Henry Kissinger. Understandably, Citizen K's style has changed perceptibly from that of the shuttle diplomat.

shuttle-kissing n. (see quot. 1908).

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1908 Bath Daily Chron. 22 Apr. 1/7 The practice known as ‘shuttle-kissing’—sucking the weft through the eye of the Shuttle.

† shuttle-prick n. Obsolete the spindle of a shuttle.

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shuttle-prick1688

1688Shuttle prick [see shuttle-trough n.].

shuttle-race n. the ledge or track along which the shuttle passes.

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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > loom > shuttle race

race1819

shuttle-race1831

racecourse1839

1831 G. R. Porter Treat. Silk Manuf. 216 A shelf, called the shuttle-race, is formed by making the bottom bar broader than the side rails.

1850 Brit. Patent 12,752 (1856) 9 A shuttle rotating on a circular shuttle race.

1868 W. Morris Earthly Paradise i. ii. 378 (Cupid & Psyche) As I drove The ivory shuttle through the shuttle-race.

shuttle service n. 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.

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society > travel > rail travel > [noun] > operation of railways > specific type of service

shuttle service1892

rail link1910

underground service1926

Motorail1968

society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > public passenger transport > [noun] > by vehicles regularly plying on a route > to and fro

shuttle service1892

Metrolink1983

1892 Q. Rev. Oct. 486 The South-Eastern used, twenty years back, to run a ‘shuttle’ service every ten minutes between Charing Cross and Cannon St.

1905 Westm. Gaz. 3 July 6/3 This ‘shuttle’ service of electric trains.

1933 Times 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.

1944 A. 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.

1961 Wall 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.

1969 Guardian 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.

1978 Detroit 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.

shuttle-shell n. a gastropod of the genus Radius.

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the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Cypraeidae > member of genus Radius

weaver's shuttle1815

shuttle-shell1861

1861 P. P. Carpenter in Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1860 195 Family Ovulidæ. (Egg and Shuttle Shells.)

† shuttle-spire n. Obsolete ? = shuttle-prick n.

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1745 Philos. Trans. 1744–5 (Royal Soc.) 43 194 There was extracted from him..an iron Shuttle Spire, four Inches long.

shuttle-train n. a train running a short distance to and fro, as on a short branch line.

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society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > train running short distance to and fro

shuttle-train1888

trip-train1894

shuttle1895

scoot1943

1888 A. Randall-Diehl Two Thousand Words 190 Shuttle-train, one that takes short runs back and forth.

1923 World Almanac 503/2 A shuttle train runs between 50th Street and 59th Street on Sixth Avenue.

1942 Sun (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.

1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XV. 494/2 In 1965 the first Freightliner container..shuttle trains began running on British Railways.

† shuttle-trough n. Obsolete = shuttle-box n. (a).

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shuttle-trough1688

shuttle-box1888

1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory 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.

† shuttle-wound armature n. Obsolete = shuttle armature n. above (obsolete).

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society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > motor > [noun] > armature of

armature1834

shuttle armature1890

shuttle-wound armature1893

slot winding1900

slotted armature1902

the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > armature > [noun] > types of

ring armature1873

drum winding1886

bar-armature1888

shuttle armature1890

shuttle-wound armature1893

slotted armature1902

1893 G. Kapp Dynamos ix. 209 The simplest example of an open-coil armature is the so-called shuttle-wound armature.

1902 Encycl. 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.

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shuttlecraft n. (plural unchanged) a vehicle used as a shuttle; (esp. in Science Fiction) a spacecraft used as a shuttle.

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1950 N.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.

1967 E. 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.

1992 J. 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.

2001 Evening 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.

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shuttle run n. Sport (originally U.S.) a physical exercise, drill, or endurance test involving repeated sprints to and fro between marked points or lines; also in plural.

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1929 Chicago Defender 31 Aug. i. 9/1 Joe Robinson and J. McGuire, both of the Third district, signed up to compete in the shuttle run and the chariot race.

1973 Irish Times 11 Sept. 3/6 Best did about an hour's training and his most strenuous session was a series of shuttle runs.

1998 Esquire Sept. 167/1 Davis does what are called shuttle runs and cone drills.

2010 N.Y. Times Mag. 6 June 49/1 I watched several groups participate in a grueling shuttle run, similar to what basketball players refer to as ‘suicides’—a series of back-and-forth sprints.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2021).

单词	shuttle
释义	shuttlen.¹ /ˈʃʌt(ə)l/ Forms: Old English sciutil, scytel, Middle English–1800s (now dialect) shittle, Middle English shotil, shetil, schytle, schetyl(le, s(c)hutylle, 1500s shetyll, shuttyll, shyttel(l, shittell, shettle, shoottle, 1600s shutle, shuttel, 1500s– shuttle. Etymology: Old English scytel ? masculine < prehistoric skutil < Germanic root skut- : see shoot v. Compare Old Norse skutill harpoon; also Swedish, Danish skyttel (of obscure history) and Danish skytte , Norwegian skyt , skjøt = sense 2 below. †1. Old English A dart, missile, arrow. Obsolete. ΚΠ c875 Erfurt Gloss. 1177 Jaculum, sciutil. c1000 Ags. Ps. (1835) lxiii. 7 Syndon hyre wita scytelum cilda æghwæs 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 Compounds 2).The normal form of the shuttle resembles that of a boat, whence its name in various languages (Latin navicula, French navette, German weberschiff). Along the middle is an axis or ‘spindle’, on which revolves the ‘quill’ or ‘bobbin’, a cylinder carrying the thread of the weft. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > loom > shuttle shuttle1338 weaver's shuttle1538 1338 in W. Dugdale Monasticon Anglicanum (1819) II. 585/2 Item pro weblomes emptis xx^s... Item pro iiij shittles pro eodem opere ij^s vj^d. 14.. in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 728/15 Hec navecula, schetylle. c1400 in M. Sellers York Memorandum Bk. (1912) I. 85 Cum instrumento dicti artificii vocato shotil. 1483 Cath. Angl. 338/2 A Schutylle [v.r. shvtylle], nauicula, panus. 1510 J. Stanbridge Vocabula (W. de W.) C j b Pecten, the shuttyll. 1570 P. Levens Manipulus Vocabulorum sig. Qii/2 A Shuttle, radius. 1577 M. Hanmer tr. Evagrius Scholasticus iv. vii, in Aunc. Eccl. Hist. 473 A weauers shittell. 1585 G. Wither A.B.C. for Laye-men 131 The sliding to and fro of the shettle in weauing. 1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage 736 The Fishers Boats are made like to a Weauers Shutle. 1676 T. Hobbes tr. Homer Iliads xxii. 444 She trembling stood, and let her Shittle fall. 1714 J. Gay Shepherd's Week Prol. Ye weavers, all your Shuttles throw. 1831 G. R. Porter Treat. Silk Manuf. 221 The shuttle is formed from a piece of boxwood. 1908 E. Fowler Between Trent & Ancholme 84 John's loom and shuttle could be heard. b. figurative and in similative use. ΚΠ a1616 W. Shakespeare Merry Wives of Windsor (1623) v. i. 23 I feare not Goliah with a Weauers beame, because I know also, life is a Shuttle . View more context for this quotation 1743 E. Young Complaint: Night the Fourth 45 How swift the Shuttle flies, that weaves thy Shrowd? 1844 R. W. Emerson Young Amer. 4 The locomotive and the steamboat, like enormous shuttles, shoot every day across the thousand various threads of national descent. 1896 R. Kipling Seven Seas 4 Swift shuttles of an Empire's loom that weave us, main to main. 1896 A. Austin England's Darling ii. iv. 61 When War's loud shuttle shall have woven peace. 3. transferred. a. A thread-carrying device in the form of a weaver's shuttle, used for knotting, tatting and embroidery. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of ornamental textiles or trimmings > [noun] > knotting or tatting > equipment for shuttle1767 shuttle-windera1877 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > embroidery or ornamental sewing > shuttle shuttle1767 1767 Countess Cowper in M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. I. 91 Mrs. Jeffreys has bought me a very elegant shuttle for two guineas. ?1770 Mrs. Ravaud in M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1862) 2nd Ser. I. 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. 1882 S. F. A. Caulfeild & B. C. 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. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > sewing > equipment for > sewing-machine > parts of or attachments for presser bar1813 flat bed1819 shuttle1847 foot1854 looper1857 take-up1859 work holder1859 feller1860 shuttle-carrier1860 binder1865 braider1866 ruffler1868 presser foot1875 shuttle-windera1877 tension-device1877 thread-cutter1877 thread-oiler1877 tuck-creaser1877 tucking-gauge1877 tuck-marker1877 thread-guide1924 zipper foot1938 free arm1948 balance-wheel1961 tuck-folder- 1847 Brit. Patent 11,464 (1855) 2 The combination of a vibrating needle with a shuttle. 1860 R. Hunt Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 5) 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. 1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 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. 1879). ΚΠ 1879 G. B. Prescott Speaking Telephone (new ed.) 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. ΚΠ 1909 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Shuttle,..in some typewriters, a curved type bar guided into position by a race. 4. A shuttlecock. Also the game. Now only in Badminton. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > battledore or badminton > [noun] shuttlec1440 shuttlecock1601 battledore1719 badminton1863 society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > ball game > racket games > battledore or badminton > [noun] > shuttlecock shuttlecocka1529 shuttlea1591 shuttle-corka1627 bird1890 birdie1926 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 447/1 Schytle, chyldys game, sagitella. a1591 H. Smith Serm. (1622) 252 Or like unto a Shittle, which flittereth from the hand of a child. 1895 Official Laws Badminton 11. †5. = radius n. 1b. Obsolete. rare.Perhaps only a mistranslation of Latin radius, one sense of which is ‘weaver's shuttle’. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bones of arm or leg > bones of arm > [noun] > bones of forearm > radius speel-bone1307 cubit1398 wand-bone1488 radius1578 wand1634 shuttle1662 spoke-bonea1836 radius bone1910 1662 J. A. Comenius Janua Linguarum Trilinguis 48 One arm bone; two of the elbow, (the ell and shuttle). 6. †a. A trochoid shell (see quot. 1750). Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Holostomata > family Trochidae > member of genus Trochus topa1682 whirl1708 shuttle1750 trochus1753 trochoid1839 silver buckie?1841 trochid1861 1750 R. Pococke 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. b. In full weaver's shuttle, a shuttle-shell, esp. Radius volva; also, the shell of this gastropod. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Cypraeidae > member of genus Radius weaver's shuttle1815 shuttle-shell1861 1815 E. J. Burrow Elements Conchol. 199 Bulla Volva. Weaver's Shuttle. B. Birostris. Bastard Weaver's Shuttle. B. Gibbosa. Short gibbous Shuttle; the Gondola. 1861 P. P. Carpenter in Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1860 195 The Weaver's Shuttle (Radius volva). 1861 P. P. Carpenter in Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1860 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. ΚΠ 1832 J. Rennie Conspectus Butterflies & Moths Brit. 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 Compounds 2). ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > train running short distance to and fro shuttle-train1888 trip-train1894 shuttle1895 scoot1943 1895 I. K. Funk et al. Standard Dict. Eng. Lang. II. 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. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > transport by air > [noun] > type of service pool service1906 taxi service1908 air shuttle1928 shuttle1942 interlining1970 1942 [see shuttle route n. at Compounds 1c]. 1944 [see shuttle service n. at Compounds 2]. 1961 [see shuttle service n. at Compounds 2]. 1964 Mrs. 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. 1971 R. 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. 1973 Daily 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. 1977 Time 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. 1978 R. Ludlum Holcroft Covenant xiii. 153 The shuttles to Paris were frequent, the customs procedures lax. c. A space rocket with wings enabling it to land like an aircraft and be used repeatedly. Cf. space shuttle n. at space n.¹ Compounds 4.Quot. 1960 is fictional. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > [noun] > which can make repeated journeys space shuttle1950 shuttle rocket1953 spaceplane1957 shuttle ship1959 shuttle1960 1960 ‘J. Wyndham’ in New Worlds Nov. 41 The acceleration in that shuttle would spread you all over the floor. 1969 New Scientist 2 Oct. 7/1 Another shuttle plying on a regular basis between Cape Kennedy and this large space laboratory. 1972 National 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. 1984 Science 13 July 146/2 A pressurized laboratory module designed for materials processing, and suitable for docking at the shuttle or at a space station. d. A series of journeys for the purpose of shuttle diplomacy (see sense Compounds 2 below). ΘΚΠ society > travel > aspects of travel > a journey > [noun] > journeys to and fro for diplomacy shuttle1975 society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > types of > series of journeys shuttle1975 1975 Daily Tel. 29 Aug. 24/3 (heading) Raid as peace shuttle nears end. 1975 Daily Tel. 29 Aug. 24/3 Dr. Kissinger completed the last legs of his Middle East shuttle yesterday. 1977 Time 17 Jan. 30 It was a diplomatic shuttle, but not exactly in the Kissinger mode. 1977 Time 17 Jan. 30 Thus [Ivor] Richard's shuttle has been dubbed by some officials and journalists in southern Africa a safari of salvation. Compounds General attributive. C1. Obvious combinations. a. (Senses 2, 3.) shuttle-driver n. ΚΠ 1801 Encycl. Brit. Suppl. II. 796/1 From its lower end there go two small cords to the shuttle drivers. shuttle-maker n. ΚΠ 1412 in H. T. Riley Memorials London (1868) 584 [William Blakeney] shetil~maker. shuttle-quill n. ΚΠ 1661 W. Petty Making Cloth 27 Nov. in T. Birch Hist. Royal Soc. (1756) I. 59 To which purpose there is somewhat considerable in the winding the yarn upon these shuttle-quills. shuttle-winder n. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of ornamental textiles or trimmings > [noun] > knotting or tatting > equipment for shuttle1767 shuttle-windera1877 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > sewing > equipment for > sewing-machine > parts of or attachments for presser bar1813 flat bed1819 shuttle1847 foot1854 looper1857 take-up1859 work holder1859 feller1860 shuttle-carrier1860 binder1865 braider1866 ruffler1868 presser foot1875 shuttle-windera1877 tension-device1877 thread-cutter1877 thread-oiler1877 tuck-creaser1877 tucking-gauge1877 tuck-marker1877 thread-guide1924 zipper foot1938 free arm1948 balance-wheel1961 tuck-folder- a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. 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. b. (In sense 6.) shuttle-tribe n. ΚΠ 1861 P. P. Carpenter in Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1860 196 None of the Cowry or Shuttle tribe have any operculum. c. (In sense 8.) shuttle bus n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > public service vehicle > [noun] > omnibus > operating specific type of service owl bus1856 school bus1872 telebus1942 shuttle bus1951 1951 Sun (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. 1972 Times 8 June 7/2 Traffic jams..that officials hoped would be averted by the bicycles and shuttle buses. 1979 United States 1980–1 (Penguin Travel Guides) 259 During the summer, a shuttlebus runs from the lakefront to the courthouse. shuttle flight n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > [noun] > a flight through air or space > regular or repeated milk round1865 milk run1909 shuttle flight1944 1944 News (Tuscaloosa, Alabama) 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. 1961 N.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. 1977 New Yorker 19 Sept. 40/1 She had to drive home alone, while he took a shuttle flight in the opposite direction. shuttle plane n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > aircraft for goods or passengers liner1905 tramp1905 airliner1908 taxi1909 taxi plane1909 air ferry1916 air freighter1919 passenger plane1919 air taxi1920 freighter1920 flying boxcar1932 ferry1939 shuttle plane1944 day coach1945 feeder liner1946 charter1959 night coach1959 1944 Britannica 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 n.]. 1976 J. Crosby Nightfall xii. 68 [He] left for the shuttle plane to New York. shuttle raid n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > type of stooge1942 rhubarb1943 rhubarbing1943 shuttle raid1943 1943 Time 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.]. shuttle rocket n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > [noun] > which can make repeated journeys space shuttle1950 shuttle rocket1953 spaceplane1957 shuttle ship1959 shuttle1960 1953 J. 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. shuttle route n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > specific movements or positions of aircraft > air as medium for operation of aircraft > [noun] > route through the air > types of shuttle route1942 purple airway1955 purple zone1970 1942 R.A.F. Jrnl. 30 May 22 The danger zone, which is the shuttle route of the German Focke-Wulf Condors. shuttle ship n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > spacecraft > [noun] > which can make repeated journeys space shuttle1950 shuttle rocket1953 spaceplane1957 shuttle ship1959 shuttle1960 1959 Amazing Stories June 12/1 Hubbard visited the spaceport..and watched the shuttle-ships come and go. d. shuttle-shaped adj. ΚΠ 1803 W. Bingley Animal Biogr. II. 414 The eyes are lodged in a shuttle-shaped band of black. 1869 E. Newman Illustr. Nat. Hist. Brit. Moths 317 The Shuttle-shaped Dart (Agrotis puta). shuttlewise adv. ΚΠ 1879 W. D. Howells Lady of Aroostook iii. 38 The ferryboats thrust shuttlewise back and forth between either shore made a refreshing sound. C2. Special combinations: † shuttle armature n. Obsolete an armature (armature n. 4c) having a single coil wound upon an elongated iron former shaped like a shuttle (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > motor > [noun] > armature of armature1834 shuttle armature1890 shuttle-wound armature1893 slot winding1900 slotted armature1902 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > armature > [noun] > types of ring armature1873 drum winding1886 bar-armature1888 shuttle armature1890 shuttle-wound armature1893 slotted armature1902 1890 W. Slingo & A. 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. 1894 Work 20 Jan. 11/2 A laminated shuttle armature. 1902 Encycl. Brit. XXVII. 579/1 The H-form ‘shuttle’ armature invented by Dr. Werner von Siemens. 1912 Motor Man. 46 The armature is, in practically every standard type, of the well-known ‘shuttle’ section. 1924 S. R. Roget Dict. Electr. 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. shuttle-bearer n. the lay or batten of a loom. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > loom > lay or batten lay1789 shuttle-bearer1835 1835 A. Ure Philos. Manuf. 350 Exercising their arms and shoulders..by resting their hands on the lay or shuttle~bearer. shuttle bomber n. ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > aeroplane > [noun] > used in warfare > bomber raider1908 bomber1917 night bomber1918 dart1925 bomb-dropper1928 flying boxcar1932 bombing plane1934 bomber aircraft1935 medium bomber1935 dive-bomber1937 heavy1943 nuisance raider1944 shuttle bomber1944 atomic bomber1945 interdictor1965 stealth1979 1944 Yank 28 July 7 They are not shuttle bombers, and they did not fly from Italy to Russia intentionally. shuttle bombing n. bombing carried out by planes taking off from one base and landing at another. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > hostilities in the air > [noun] > air operation > bombing raid > dropping of bombs > manner of area bombardment1918 straddling1919 pattern-bombing1933 terror-bombing1933 dive-bombing1935 firebombing1935 blind-bombing1940 blitzing1940 coventrating1940 nuisance bombing1940 scatter bombing1940 coventration1942 carpet bombing1943 obliteration bombing1943 skip-bombing1943 shuttle bombing1944 atom bombing1945 atomic bombing1945 clobbering1948 loft-bombing1956 1944 Newsweek 10 Jan. 27 Last summer the RAF and the Eighth both tried shuttle bombing. 1954 Times 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. shuttle-bone n. †(a) each of the bones of the forearm; (b) the navicular bone in the foot of a horse. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > structural parts > bone or bones > bones of arm or leg > bones of arm > [noun] > bones of forearm cubit1398 shuttle-bone1688 the world > animals > mammals > group Ungulata (hoofed) > family Equidae (general equines) > body or parts of horse > [noun] > foot or spec. foot > bone in navicular?a1425 nut-bone1615 navicular bone1816 shuttle-bone1832 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory ii. xvii. 417/2 The Cubitus..doth consist of two Bones; the Shuttle Bones. 1832 W. Percivall Anat. Horse 60 The Navicular or Shuttle Bone (Os Naviculare). shuttle-box n. †(a) the cavity in the side of a shuttle to hold the spindle (obsolete); (b) ‘a tray or case at the end of the shuttle-race to receive the shuttle’ (E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. 1875). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > loom > shuttle > cavity in side of shuttle-trough1688 shuttle-box1888 the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > loom > shuttle race > tray or case at end of shuttle-box1888 1888 Encycl. Brit. XXIV. 464/1 [article 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. shuttle car n. a vehicle for making frequent short journeys, spec. one for the underground haulage of coal. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > mining equipment > [noun] > vehicle for underground haulage or transportation tram1517 wagon1649 rolley1817 buggy1867 barney1874 hod1883 whirley1886 shuttle car1905 manrider1967 scooptram1967 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > other vehicles according to specific use > [noun] > vehicle making frequent short journeys shuttle car1905 1905 E. E. Calkins & R. Holden Art Mod. Advertising v. 89 They also have many shuttle cars, or [street]cars that make short runs. 1956 Atkinson & 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. 1979 Jrnl. Royal Soc. Arts 127 89/2 Rubber tyred shuttle cars can be used from the continuous miner to the main transport system if the floor is hard enough. shuttle-carrier n. the arm or other device which reciprocates the shuttle in a sewing machine. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > sewing or ornamenting textile fabric > [noun] > sewing > equipment for > sewing-machine > parts of or attachments for presser bar1813 flat bed1819 shuttle1847 foot1854 looper1857 take-up1859 work holder1859 feller1860 shuttle-carrier1860 binder1865 braider1866 ruffler1868 presser foot1875 shuttle-windera1877 tension-device1877 thread-cutter1877 thread-oiler1877 tuck-creaser1877 tucking-gauge1877 tuck-marker1877 thread-guide1924 zipper foot1938 free arm1948 balance-wheel1961 tuck-folder- 1860 R. Hunt Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 5) III. 649 [article 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. Thesaurus » Categories » shuttle-crab n. a paddle-crab, Callinectes hastatus ( Cent. Dict. 1891). shuttle diplomacy n. diplomatic activity involving a series of journeys to and fro, esp. by a mediator travelling between disputing parties. ΘΚΠ society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > types of public diplomacy1856 gunboat diplomacy1927 total diplomacy1935 sputnik diplomacy1957 shuttle diplomacy1974 1974 Between Lines (Newtown, Pa.) 15 Feb. 2/3 So beware of an over-celebration of Kissinger's shuttle diplomacy, heroic as it's been. 1976 Birmingham 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. 1979 H. Kissinger White House Years p. xxi The October 1973 Middle East war and the ‘shuttle diplomacy’ that followed. shuttle diplomat n. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > peace > pacification > peace treaty > [noun] > mediator mediatorc1410 treater1489 parlementaire1853 parliamentary1855 shuttle diplomat1977 society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > diplomacy > [noun] > types of > person shuttle diplomat1977 1977 Time 13 June 80 Or consider Henry Kissinger. Understandably, Citizen K's style has changed perceptibly from that of the shuttle diplomat. shuttle-kissing n. (see quot. 1908). ΚΠ 1908 Bath Daily Chron. 22 Apr. 1/7 The practice known as ‘shuttle-kissing’—sucking the weft through the eye of the Shuttle. † shuttle-prick n. Obsolete the spindle of a shuttle. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > loom > shuttle > spindle of shuttle-prick1688 1688Shuttle prick [see shuttle-trough n.]. shuttle-race n. the ledge or track along which the shuttle passes. ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > loom > shuttle race race1819 shuttle-race1831 racecourse1839 1831 G. R. Porter Treat. Silk Manuf. 216 A shelf, called the shuttle-race, is formed by making the bottom bar broader than the side rails. 1850 Brit. Patent 12,752 (1856) 9 A shuttle rotating on a circular shuttle race. 1868 W. Morris Earthly Paradise i. ii. 378 (Cupid & Psyche) As I drove The ivory shuttle through the shuttle-race. shuttle service n. 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. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > [noun] > operation of railways > specific type of service shuttle service1892 rail link1910 underground service1926 Motorail1968 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > public passenger transport > [noun] > by vehicles regularly plying on a route > to and fro shuttle service1892 Metrolink1983 1892 Q. Rev. Oct. 486 The South-Eastern used, twenty years back, to run a ‘shuttle’ service every ten minutes between Charing Cross and Cannon St. 1905 Westm. Gaz. 3 July 6/3 This ‘shuttle’ service of electric trains. 1933 Times 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. 1944 A. 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. 1961 Wall 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. 1969 Guardian 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. 1978 Detroit 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. shuttle-shell n. a gastropod of the genus Radius. ΘΚΠ the world > animals > invertebrates > subkingdom Metazoa > grade Triploblastica or Coelomata > class Gastropoda > [noun] > superorder Branchifera > order Prosobranchiata > section Siphonostomata > family Cypraeidae > member of genus Radius weaver's shuttle1815 shuttle-shell1861 1861 P. P. Carpenter in Rep. Smithsonian Inst. 1860 195 Family Ovulidæ. (Egg and Shuttle Shells.) † shuttle-spire n. Obsolete ? = shuttle-prick n. ΚΠ 1745 Philos. Trans. 1744–5 (Royal Soc.) 43 194 There was extracted from him..an iron Shuttle Spire, four Inches long. shuttle-train n. a train running a short distance to and fro, as on a short branch line. ΘΚΠ society > travel > rail travel > rolling stock > [noun] > train > train running short distance to and fro shuttle-train1888 trip-train1894 shuttle1895 scoot1943 1888 A. Randall-Diehl Two Thousand Words 190 Shuttle-train, one that takes short runs back and forth. 1923 World Almanac 503/2 A shuttle train runs between 50th Street and 59th Street on Sixth Avenue. 1942 Sun (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. 1974 Encycl. Brit. Macropædia XV. 494/2 In 1965 the first Freightliner container..shuttle trains began running on British Railways. † shuttle-trough n. Obsolete = shuttle-box n. (a). ΘΚΠ the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile manufacture > manufacture textile fabric or that which consists of > manufacture of textile fabric > [noun] > weaving > loom > shuttle > cavity in side of shuttle-trough1688 shuttle-box1888 1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory 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. † shuttle-wound armature n. Obsolete = shuttle armature n. above (obsolete). ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > machine > machines which impart power > motor > [noun] > armature of armature1834 shuttle armature1890 shuttle-wound armature1893 slot winding1900 slotted armature1902 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electrical engineering > armature > [noun] > types of ring armature1873 drum winding1886 bar-armature1888 shuttle armature1890 shuttle-wound armature1893 slotted armature1902 1893 G. Kapp Dynamos ix. 209 The simplest example of an open-coil armature is the so-called shuttle-wound armature. 1902 Encycl. 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. Draft additions March 2003 shuttlecraft n. (plural unchanged) a vehicle used as a shuttle; (esp. in Science Fiction) a spacecraft used as a shuttle. ΚΠ 1950 N.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. 1967 E. 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. 1992 J. 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. 2001 Evening 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. Draft additions June 2015 shuttle run n. Sport (originally U.S.) a physical exercise, drill, or endurance test involving repeated sprints to and fro between marked points or lines; also in plural. ΚΠ 1929 Chicago Defender 31 Aug. i. 9/1 Joe Robinson and J. McGuire, both of the Third district, signed up to compete in the shuttle run and the chariot race. 1973 Irish Times 11 Sept. 3/6 Best did about an hour's training and his most strenuous session was a series of shuttle runs. 1998 Esquire Sept. 167/1 Davis does what are called shuttle runs and cone drills. 2010 N.Y. Times Mag. 6 June 49/1 I watched several groups participate in a grueling shuttle run, similar to what basketball players refer to as ‘suicides’—a series of back-and-forth sprints. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2021). † shuttlen.² Forms: α. Old English scyt(t)el, scetel, Middle English ssettel, Middle English schettel, schyt(t)yl; β. Old English scyttels, scyttyls, scytels, scettels, Middle English scutles. Etymology: Old English scyt(t)el , scyt(t)els < prehistoric skutil, -isli, < skut- in scyttan to shut; the two Old English words have different suffixes, but their forms coalesced in Middle English: see -el suffix¹, -els suffix. Compare West Frisian skoattel, East Frisian schötel, North Frisian sködel. The modern dialect shuttle (shittle, shettle, shottle) horizontal bar of a gate (see Eng. Dial. Dict.), is perhaps the same word. Obsolete. 1. A bolt or bar, as of a door. ΘΚΠ the world > space > relative position > closed or shut condition > that which or one who closes or shuts > [noun] > bolt or bar shuttle971 barc1175 esselc1275 slota1300 sperel13.. ginc1330 staple-bar1339 shotc1430 shuttingc1440 shutc1460 spar1596 counter-bar1611 shooter1632 drawbar1670 night bolt1775 drop-bolt1786 snibbing-bolt1844 stay-band1844 window bar1853 heck-stower1876 barrel bolt1909 latch bolt1909 panic bolt1911 971 Blickl. Hom. 87 Ealle þa isenan scyttelas helle loca wurdan tobrocene. a1000 Kent. Gloss. 658 in Haupt's Zeitschr. (1877) IX. 55 Scetel, vectis. c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 70 Ða scytelses [v.r. scittelsas] to burston. a1023 Wulfstan Homilies 230 Openiað þas geatu and þa fæstan scytelsas. c1175 Lamb. Hom. 127 Þet is þet [loc] þeðe deofel ne con unlucan, þet is þet scutles þeðe deofel ne mei nefre to-cysan. 1340 Ayenbite (1866) 94 ‘My zoster, my lemman, þou art a gardin besset, myd tuo ssettles,’ þet is þe grace of god, and of angles. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 365/1 Ondoynge, or op(y)nynge of schettellys, or sperellys. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 447/1 Schyttyl, or sperynge, pessulum, vel pessellum. 2. ? A shutter or a partition. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > window or door > parts of windows > [noun] > fittings or ornaments of windows > shutter fall window1422 lock1440 window?c1500 lid1535 winnock-bred1546 window lid1591 counter-window1600 shut1611 shuttle1614 window-broad1628 window-shut1649 window shutter1665 window board1683 shutter1720 fallboard1742 jalousie1766 storm shutter1834 rain door1867 amado1873 sunbreak1891 brise-soleil1944 1614 T. Godwin Romanæ Historiæ Anthologia i. i. xviii. 15 By the drawing aside of some wainscot shuttles..a newe partition might seeme to be put vp. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2021). shuttlen.³ /ˈʃʌt(ə)l/ Forms: Middle English schetel, 1500s, 1800s dialect shittle, 1700s– shuttle. Etymology: < shut v. + -le suffix. It is uncertain whether the word represents Old English scyttel , scyttels (see shuttle n.²) in an unrecorded sense, or was a new formation in Middle English. 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). ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > water > lake > pool > [noun] > artificially confined water > contrivance for impounding water > gate, lock, or sluice hatchOE clowa1250 lock1261 water lock1261 sluice1340 water gate1390 sewer-gate1402 spay1415 floodgatec1440 shuttlec1440 spayer1450 gate1496 falling gate1524 spoye1528 gote1531 penstock1542 ventil1570 drawgate1587 flood-hatch1587 turnpike1623 slaker1664 lock gate1677 hatchway1705 flash1768 turnpike-lock1771 sluice-gate1781 pound-lock1783 stop-gate1790 buck gate1791 slacker1797 aboiteau1802 koker1814 guard-lock1815 falling sluice1819 lasher1840 fender1847 tailgate1875 weir-hatch1875 wicket1875 c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 445/2 Schetelys, or gote, supra, aquagium. 1583 Inquisition 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. 1738 J. Green Let. 18 Feb. in Philos. Trans. 1739–40 (Royal Soc.) (1742) 41 167 The Miller..went immediately, and let down the Shuttle. 1812 P. Nouaille in ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic (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. 1832 Holderness Drainage Act 13 Stocks, shuttles and other works of drainage. 1845 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 5 ii. 400 The sluices or cloughs used then being merely what now would be called shuttles. 1877 E. Peacock Gloss. Words Manley & Corringham, Lincs. Shittle,..the shuttle of a drain. ‘The shittle agean th' fish-pond is o' no use noo.’ 1887 Fishing 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. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > equipment > metalworking equipment > [noun] > casting equipment > mould > hole for pouring in metal > shutter for closing shutter1856 shuttle1858 1858 in P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products 1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online June 2022). shuttlen.⁴ Brit. /ˈʃʌt(ə)l/, U.S. /ˈʃəd(ə)l/, Scottish English /ˈʃʌt(ə)l/ Forms: Also 1600s schottlle, 1600s– shottle. Etymology: Of doubtful origin: perhaps < shut v. + -le suffix. Compare shuttle n.³ Scottish and Devon. 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’ (Jamieson). ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > money > place for keeping money > money box or chest > [noun] boxc1300 packa1393 money coffer1525 money box1585 cashc1595 kista1625 shuttle1626 money chest1683 lob1718 cash-chest1719 bank coffer1797 casket1832 cash-box1834 Peter1859 society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > box > [noun] > drawer till1452 draw box1531 drawer1565 draw1605 shuttle1626 tiller1693 1626 D. Wedderburn Compt Bk. (S.H.S.) 142 Ane aikin frez pres with schottlles of aik thairin. 1699 E. West Mem. (1865) 114 I thought they were like a cabinet full of shuttles and in every shuttle there was a jewel. 1719 W. Hamilton Epist. to Ramsay i. 32 Gin that my haff-pay siller shottle Can safely spare it. 1815 W. Scott Guy Mannering II. 303 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 W. Scott in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Sir W. Scott (1839) VII. 105 Like the inside of an antique cabinet with drawers and shottles and funny little arches. 1832 A. E. Bray Let. in Descr. Part Devonshire (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. 1866 R. Chambers Ess. 1st Ser. 152 A set of docketed papers, tied up with red tape, and deposited in shottle fifteen. 1870 J. K. Hunter Life Stud. Char. 158 I had three white half-croons in the shuttle o' my kist. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). shuttleadj. Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈshuttle. Variant of shittle adj., unsteady, shaky, etc., surviving in dialect (see Eng. Dial. Dict.). ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > [adjective] > tottering > unstable unstable1390 unsteadfasta1400 tickle1515 unstayed1594 unsteady1598 shittle1601 firmless1605 flitty1642 totty1652 shuttlec1682 unfirm1697 wankly1795 wankya1825 cockery1825 wobbly1833 tottlish1835 earthquaky1837 tottling1849 shaky1850 cockly1859 unsteadied1865 shoggy1866 wankle1869 wibblety-wobblety1877 cockerty1895 tipsy1895 rocky1900 wibbly-wobbly1901 tottly1905 topply1913 wibbly1914 1542 N. Udall tr. Erasmus Apophthegmes f. 307^v Metellus was so shuttle~brained that even in the middes of his tribuneship he left his office in Roome. ?1553 Respublica (1952) v. ii. 44 That shuttle brained tall, long man. 1602 R. Tyrie 5 Godlie Serm. 200 To some shallow heads, shuttle braines, and simple wits, it seemeth to be [etc.]. 1617 S. Collins Epphata to F. T. ii. x. 497 Howsoeuer our shuttle-pated Adioynder thinke of it. a1623 W. Pemble Salomons Recant. (1627) 5 The Waters, a shuttle and running substance. a1649 MS. Poems temp. Chas. I (Halliw.) Nor can you deeme them shuttle-headed fellowes, Who for the Lord are so exceeding zealous. c1660 Rump Songs I. 7 Is it not strange, that in that Shuttle-head Three Kingdoms ruines should be buried? c1682 J. Collins Salt & Fishery 15 A mixture of harsh shuttle Sand. 1888 F. T. Elworthy W. Somerset Word-bk. Shuttle, quick, lithe, active... Also applied to any dry or easily slipping matter, as grain, seeds, sand, &c. 1888 R. L. Stevenson Black Arrow i. ii. 40 See there how shuttle-witted are these girls. Derivatives † ˈshuttly adv. Obsolete unsteadily. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > irregular movement or agitation > unsteady movement > [adverb] tolter1423 shuttly1661 widdle-waddle1664 1661 W. Petty Making Cloth 27 Nov. in T. Birch Hist. Royal 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online March 2022). shuttlev. /ˈʃʌt(ə)l/ Forms: In 1500s shutle. Etymology: Partly or perhaps wholly < shuttle n.¹; but possibly in part a frequentative < shoot v.: see -le suffix. 1. a. transitive. To move (a thing) briskly to and fro like a shuttle. Also, to throw swiftly. Obsolete exc. dialect. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > move to and fro or up and down [verb (transitive)] > move like a shuttlecock or tennis-ball shuttle1550 tennis1565 bandya1599 racket1599 shuttlecock1687 battledore1858 ping-pong1909 the world > movement > impelling or driving > projecting through space or throwing > throw [verb (transitive)] > suddenly shootc1075 flapc1320 flatc1330 spang1513 yark1568 flirt1582 cant1685 jerk1708 flip1712 shuttle1823 spring1884 1550 M. Coverdale tr. O. Werdmueller Spyrytuall & Precyouse Pearle xxxi. sig. Niij He that hath an heauye burthen vpon hys backe, the more he shuttlyth and moueth the same, the more doth it greue hym. 1823 J. Galt Entail II. xxviii. 268 He would hae grippit me by the cuff o' the neck and the back o' the breeks and shuttled me through the window. 1840 T. Carlyle Let. 17 Mar. in Coll. Lett. T. & J. W. Carlyle (1985) XII. 80 A face of the most extreme mobility, which he shuttles about..in a very singular manner while speaking. 1857 G. Meredith Farina 48 Now general commotion shuttled them. b. To transport in a vehicle or craft operating a shuttle service. Also transferred. ΘΚΠ society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > transport or convey in a vehicle [verb (transitive)] > to and fro shuttle1930 1930 E. 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. 1945 Times 13 Sept. 5/7 There has been no difficulty about shuttling prisoners resident in the British and American zones. 1965 Listener 30 Sept. 482/2 So what happens to the old patient? Does he or she get shuttled around to one hospital after another? 1971 Nature 27 Aug. 632/1 That malate may serve to ‘shuttle’ reducing equivalents from cytoplasm to mitochondria. 1975 Daily 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. 1977 Offshore Engineer May 49/2 Two 15,000t tankers shuttle the oil to Spanish refineries. 1978 H. Wouk War & Remembrance xiv. 148 Trains devoted to shuttling the Jews rolled eastward jam-packed and went back empty. 2. intransitive. 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 transferred. ΘΚΠ society > travel > [verb (intransitive)] > travel to and fro traffic1569 shuttle1823 oscillate1865 the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > move to and fro or up and down [verb (intransitive)] > move rapidly to and fro shuttle1823 society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > ride in a vehicle [verb (intransitive)] > travelling to and fro shuttle1966 1823 J. Galt Ringan Gilhaize III. xxiv. 222 In the clear linn the trouts shuttled from stone and crevice. 1837 T. Carlyle French Revol. II. vi. i. 371 Their corps go marching and shuttling, in the interior of the country. 1884 Harper's Mag. July 270/1 It is as though a section of roadway shuttled to and fro between the shores. 1910 Spectator 23 Apr. 666/2 Faster ships shuttle to and fro weaving the political web more and more rapidly. 1935 M. M. Atwater Murder in Midsummer i. 6 A few automobiles, like overgrown beetles, shuttled back and forth along the concrete highways. 1966 Aviation 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. 1973 Internat. Relations Dict. (U.S. Dept. State Library) 38/1 Henry Kissinger personally shuttled back and forth between Jerusalem and Cairo. 1975 Sci. 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. 1977 Time 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. 1978 R. Ludlum Holcroft Covenant xiii. 157 France's domestic airline shuttled about the country with splendid irregularity. 1979 Sci. Amer. Jan. 29/1 (caption) The trains shuttle back and forth without being uncoupled, acting much like a conveyor belt. Categories » 3. Scottish. To ply the shuttle, weave. (See Eng. Dial. Dict.) Derivatives ˈshuttling adj. ΘΚΠ the world > movement > motion in specific manner > alternating or reciprocating motion > [adjective] > to-and-fro > rapidly shuttling1860 1860 All Year Round 4 Feb. 344 The flutes began in a whirling, shuttling movement. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1914; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.¹c875n.²971n.³c1440n.⁴1626adj.1542v.1550
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