Dictionary Entry
shuttle
shuttle is a 7-letter English word with 8 senses as noun, intransitive verb, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: An instrument used in weaving for passing or shooting the thread of the woof from one side of the cloth to the other between the threads of the warp. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 11 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 11 · 8 senses
Definitions
- 1noun
An instrument used in weaving for passing or shooting the thread of the woof from one side of the cloth to the other between the threads of the warp.
- 2noun
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.
- 3noun
A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.
- 4intransitive verb
To move backwards and forwards, like a shuttle.
- 5noun
bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads
- 6noun
public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that plies back and forth between two points
- 7noun
badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers
Synonyms
- 8verb
travel back and forth between two points
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