'Shuttle' definitions:
Definition of 'shuttle'
(from WordNet)
noun
Badminton equipment consisting of a ball of cork or rubber with a crown of feathers [syn: shuttlecock, bird, birdie, shuttle]
noun
Public transport that consists of a bus or train or airplane that plies back and forth between two points
noun
Bobbin that passes the weft thread between the warp threads
verb
Travel back and forth between two points
Definition of 'Shuttle'
From: GCIDE
- Shuttle \Shut"tle\, v. i. To move backwards and forwards, like a shuttle. [1913 Webster]
- I had to fly far and wide, shutting athwart the big Babel, wherever his calls and pauses had to be. --Carlyle. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'shuttle'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- air transport,
- air travel,
- airfreight,
- alternate,
- Amtrak,
- back and fill,
- baggage train,
- battledore and shuttlecock,
- cable railroad,
- choo-choo,
- cog railroad,
- cog railway,
- come and go,
- commute,
- ebb and flow,
- el,
- electric,
- electric train,
- elevated,
- express,
- express train,
- flier,
- freight,
- freight train,
- freighter,
- funicular,
- goods train,
- hand loom,
- hitch and hike,
- interurban,
- knitting machine,
- lightning express,
- limited,
- local,
- loom,
- metro,
- metronome,
- milk train,
- monorail,
- oscillator,
- parliamentary,
- parliamentary train,
- pass and repass,
- passenger train,
- pendulum,
- rack-and-pinion railroad,
- railroad train,
- range,
- rattler,
- reciprocate,
- ride and tie,
- rocker,
- rocking chair,
- rocking stone,
- rolling stock,
- seesaw,
- shunt,
- shuttle service,
- shuttle train,
- shuttlecock,
- special,
- streamliner,
- subway,
- swing,
- teeter,
- teeter-totter,
- teeterboard,
- teetery-bender,
- to-and-fro,
- train,
- tube,
- underground,
- vibrator,
- wax and wane,
- way train,
- weaver,
- wibble-wabble,
- wigwag,
- zigzag