shuttle
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6.4
- noun
- /ˈʃʌtəl/
- Specialized
:
lanzadera
- Two of the most prestigious silk cloths are also woven on looms fitted with a flying shuttle.
- flying shuttle
But if you flip it on its side, he talks about, you know, well, we wouldn't need slaves if we had, you know, looms where the shuttle wove itself.
- But if you flip it on its side, he talks about, you know, well, we wouldn't need slaves if we had, you know, looms where the shuttle wove itself.
- So if we had shuttles that could weave by themselves, if we had, you know, other things that would do their own work, we wouldn't need slaves to do all that work.
- OK, now we attach the shuttle.
Examples
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Colored silk and metal threads, in individual shuttles, are worked by hand to form named design bands at either end of the cloth.
Academic text (2004) -
The shuttle raced across the loom, back and forth, and bore him into the international market.
Fiction book (2002) -
It's supposed to represent the movement of the shuttle through the threads of the loom.
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Letta was helping Ileria, loading a shuttle with thread from a distaff.
Fiction book (1994) -
Accessories such as heddles, pulleys, and shuttle boats are made in specialist workshops in the nearby town of Ksar Hellal.
Academic text (2004) -
The weaver carefully moved the shuttle as it carried the thread between the warp strands.
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To create the fabric, the shuttle must be used to weave the threads back and forth.
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After threading the loom, she began to use the shuttle to interlace the colorful yarn.
Compounds
- Specialized
69
4.2
A reusable vehicle with wings that carries people and cargo to space and returns to Earth
- Literature
2
6.8
Talks where a neutral person travels between two sides to help them reach an agreement
A helicopter that often moves people or goods back and forth between two places
Surface Forms
Etymology
Shuttle for the tool in a loom comes from the same old idea of a small piece 'shot' through the threads; it carried the thread across the cloth, which is why the moving tool is called a shuttle.