shuttle

IPA(Pronunciation)

/ˈʃʌtəl/

Noun

(weaving) A tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom.

Japanese Meaning

織機において、経糸の間を通って緯糸を運搬するために用いられる道具

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The weaver skillfully passed the shuttle across the warp, creating a tight, even fabric.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

織り手は杼（ひ）を巧みに経糸の間に通し、きっちりとした均一な布を織り上げた。

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Sense（1）

(weaving) A tool used to carry the woof back and forth between the warp threads on a loom.

My dayes are ſwifter then a weauers ſhuttle, and are ſpent without hope.

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Sense（3）

A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two or more places.

The shuttle bus runs to the airport on a half-hourly basis form the central station.

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Sense（4）

Such a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle.

You're saying we take the parking shuttles, reinforce them with aluminum siding and then head to the gun store where our friend Andy plays some cowboy-movie, jump-on-the-wagon bullshit.

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Sense（5）

Any other item that moves repeatedly back and forth between two positions, possibly transporting something else with it between those points (such as, in chemistry, a molecular shuttle).

Sense（6）

A shuttlecock.

Sense（7）

A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.

shuttles

（ plural ）

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