Definitions
travel back and forth between two points
Word origin
The name for a loom weaving instrument, recorded from 1338, is from a sense of being "shot" across the threads. The back-and-forth imagery inspired the extension to "passenger trains" in 1895, aircraft in 1942, and spacecraft in 1969, as well as older terms such as shuttlecock.
Used in a sentence
“My dayes are ſwifter then a weauers ſhuttle, and are ſpent without hope.”
“Like shuttles through the loom, so swiftly glide My feather'd hours, and all my hopes deride!.”
“By placing the sword edgewise, the weaver keeps the countershed open, in order to shoot through the shuttle.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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