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shuttle (noun)
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.

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

shuttle (noun)
Such a transport vehicle; a shuttle bus; a space shuttle.

shuttle (noun)
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).

shuttle (noun)
A shuttlecock.

shuttle (noun)
A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal.

shuttle (verb)
To go back and forth between two places.

shuttle (verb)
To transport by shuttle or by means of a shuttle service.

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