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English Dictionary - With Multi-Lingual Search Your Query of 'shuttle' Resulted in 1 Matches Displaying Items 1 through 1 Definitions shuttle noun  A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two places. The part of a loom that carries the woof back and forth between the warp threads Translations:  French: navette verb (shuttl, ing) To go back and forth between two places. Etymology: From scytel (dart, arrow), from (Ger.) skutilaz (compare skutill (harpoon)), from skut- (project) (see shoot). Name for 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.        Find:   Words Starting With:   Words Ending With:   Words Containing:   Words That Match:    Translate Into:    Dutch   French   German    Italian   Spanish Enter your search terms Submit search form   Web www.allwords.com Browse the Dictionary A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z

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