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Shuttle

noun

Badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers. Synonyms: bird, birdie, shuttlecock.

Public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that plies back and forth between two points.

Bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads.

verb

Travel back and forth between two points.

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"Shuttle" Quotes from Famous Books

... James Watts's steam engine, combined with the flying shuttle of John Kay, the spinning jenny of Hargreaves, the water-frame of Arkwright, and the self-acting loom of Crompton, was working as great a revolution in England's cloth-making industry as Eli Whitney's cotton gin had done in the South. In other words the hand loom had been supplanted ...

— Carl and the Cotton Gin • Sara Ware Bassett

... With piers it required about 15,000 cu. yds. of concrete. Two Ransome concrete hoists, one on each side of the original steel structure near one end, were supplied with concrete by a No. 4 Ransome mixer. The mixer discharged direct into the bucket of one hoist and by means of a shuttle car and chute into the bucket ...

— Concrete Construction - Methods and Costs • Halbert P. Gillette

... goodman mends his armor, And trims his helmet's plume; When the goodwife's shuttle merrily Goes flashing through the loom; With weeping and with laughter Still is the story told, How well Horatius kept the bridge In the brave ...

— Holiday Stories for Young People • Various

... yards, and the price has dropped to 15 cents per hundred yards. The old rate of 24 cents per bolt used to net $1.80 to a very quick worker. The new rate to one equally competent is but $1.50. Workers have to fill a shuttle every minute and a half or two minutes. This necessitates the strain of constant vigilance, as the breaking of the thread causes unevenness, and for this operators are laid off for two or three days. The operators are at such a tension that they not only stand all day, but may not ...

— The Trade Union Woman • Alice Henry

... pleas'd, The wonderous story heard. Some hard of faith Its truth, its probability deny. To true divinities such power some grant; And power to compass more;—to Bacchus none Such potence own. The sisters, silent now, Alcithoe beg to speak: she shooting swift Her shuttle through th' extended threads, exclaims;— "Of Daphnis' love, so known, on Ida's hill, "His flocks who tended, whom his angry nymph, "To stone transform'd (such fury fires the breast "Of those who desperate love!) I shall not tell: "Nor ...

— The Metamorphoses of Publius Ovidus Naso in English blank verse Vols. I & II • Ovid

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