shuttle : Idioms & Phrases

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Shutten race

  • a sort of shelf in a loom, beneath the warp, along which the shuttle passes; a channel or guide along which the shuttle passes in a sewing machine.
Webster 1913

Shuttle box

  • (Weaving), a case at the end of a shuttle race, to receive the shuttle after it has passed the thread of the warp; also, one of a set of compartments containing shuttles with different colored threads, which are passed back and forth in a certain order, according to the pattern of the cloth woven.
Webster 1913

shuttle bus

  • noun shuttle consisting of a bus that travels between two points
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shuttle diplomacy

  • noun international negotiations conducted by a mediator who frequently flies back and forth between the negotiating parties
    • Kissinger's shuttle diplomacy in the Middle East
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shuttle helicopter

  • noun a helicopter that shuttles back and forth
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Shuttle shell

  • (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of marine gastropods of the genus Volva, or Radius, having a smooth, spindle-shaped shell prolonged into a channel at each end.
Webster 1913

space shuttle

  • noun a reusable spacecraft with wings for a controlled descent through the Earth's atmosphere
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Tatting shuttle

  • the shuttle on which the thread used in tatting is wound.
Webster 1913

Weavers' shuttle

  • (Zoöl.), an East Indian marine univalve shell (Radius volva); so called from its shape. See Illust. of Shuttle shell, under Shuttle.
Webster 1913