2syllables
shuttles
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Definitions ofshuttles
1noun
- The part of a loom that carries the woof back and forth between the warp threads.
- The sliding thread holder in a sewing machine, which carries the lower thread through a loop of the upper thread, to make a lock stitch.
- A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two places, sometimes more.
- Such a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle.
- 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).
- A shuttlecock.
- A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.
1verb
- To go back and forth between two places.
- To transport by shuttle or by means of a shuttle service.
Synonyms: chauffeur
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