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| 1. n. (weaving) The part of a loom that carries the woof back and forth between the warp threads. | |
| 2. n. 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. | |
| 3. n. A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two places, sometimes more. | |
| 4. n. Such a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle. | |
| 5. n. 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). | |
| 6. n. A shuttlecock. | |
| 7. n. A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal. | |
| 8. v. (intransitive) To go back and forth between two places. | |
| 9. v. To transport by shuttle or by means of a shuttle service. | |
