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Word entry · 7 letters

shuttle

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"back-forth ride"

7 letters · collected on this word page

7 lettersPronunciation /ˈʃʌtəl/Part of speech verb, nounSorted ehlsttuStarts with SEnds with E1 cluesVery common crossword word
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Definitions

  1. 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.

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