shuttle

Definitions of shuttle in various dictionaries:

noun - badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers

noun - public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that plies back and forth between two points

noun - bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads

verb - travel back and forth between two points

A device used in weaving to carry the woof thread back and forth between the warp threads.

A device for holding the thread in tatting and netting and in a sewing machine.

Regular travel back and forth over an established, often short route by a vehicle.

A vehicle used in such travel: took the shuttle across town.

A route used by a vehicle in such travel: the Washington-New York air shuttle.

A space shuttle.

To go, move, or travel back and forth by or as if by a shuttle: business people who shuttle between European capitals.

To cause to move back and forth frequently.

To transport by or as if by a shuttle: shuttle a scientific payload to an orbiting space station.

verb - to move or travel back and forth

SHUTTLE - The original meaning of the word shuttle is the device used in weaving to carry the weft. By reference to the continual to-and-fro motion associated ...