{i} device that holds the horizontal thread and passes it through the vertical threads (Weaving); lower bobbin in a sewing machine; transportation route connecting two locations; vehicle that transports people over a short route (boat, bus, etc.); birdie, ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers used in badminton
If someone or something shuttles or is shuttled from one place to another place, they frequently go from one place to the other. He and colleagues have shuttled back and forth between the three capitals Machine parts were also being shuttled across the border without authorisation. In the weaving of cloth, a spindle-shaped device used to carry the crosswise threads (weft) through the lengthwise threads (warp). Not all modern looms use a shuttle; shuttleless looms draw the weft from a nonmoving supply. Shuttle looms fall into two groups according to whether the shuttle is moved by hand or automatically. The second kind is often described as an automatic loom, but except for shuttle movement it is no more automatic in its operation than the hand-moved or so-called nonautomatic loom. See also flying shuttle
bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that plies back and forth between two points travel back and forth between two points
A transport service (such as a bus or train) that goes back and forth between two places