shuttle Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers
    shuttlecock; bird; birdie.
  2. noun public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that plies back and forth between two points
  3. noun bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads
  4. verb travel back and forth between two points

WordNet

Shut"tle noun
Etymology
Also shittle, OE. schitel, scytyl, schetyl; cf. OE. schitel a bolt of a door, AS. scyttes; all from AS. sceótan to shoot; akin to Dan. skyttel, skytte, shuttle, dial. Sw. skyttel, sköttel. See Shoot, and cf. Shittle, Skittles.
Definitions
  1. An instrument used in weaving for passing or shooting the thread of the woof from one side of the cloth to the other between the threads of the warp.
    Like shuttles through the loom, so swiftly glide My feathered hours. Sandys.
  2. The sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which carries the lower thread through a loop of the upper thread, to make a lock stitch.
  3. A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal. R.
Shut"tle intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To move backwards and forwards, like a shuttle.
    I had to fly far and wide, shutting athwart the big Babel, wherever his calls and pauses had to be. Carlyle.

Webster 1913