| Shutter | n. 1. One who shuts or closes. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. A movable cover or screen for a window, designed to shut out the light, to obstruct the view, or to be of some strength as a defense; a blind. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. A removable cover, or a gate, for closing an aperture of any kind, as for closing the passageway for molten iron from a ladle. [ 1913 Webster ] 4. (Photog.) A mechanical device of various forms, attached to the aperture of a camera lens for opening and closing to expose the plate. It is usually designed so that the time during which the aperture is opened may be varied by a manual dial or by some automatic mechanism, thereby allowing proper exposure of a photographic film under different intensities of light. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ] |
| Shuttle | n. [ Also shittle, OE. schitel, scytyl, schetyl; cf. OE. schitel a bolt of a door, AS. scyttes; all from AS. sceótan to shoot; akin to Dan. skyttel, skytte, shuttle, dial. Sw. skyttel, sköttel. √159. See Shoot, and cf. Shittle, Skittles. ] 1. An instrument used in weaving for passing or shooting the thread of the woof from one side of the cloth to the other between the threads of the warp. [ 1913 Webster ] Like shuttles through the loom, so swiftly glide
My feathered hours. Sandys. [ 1913 Webster ] 2. 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. [ 1913 Webster ] 3. A shutter, as for a channel for molten metal. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]
Shuttle box (Weaving), a case at the end of a shuttle race, to receive the shuttle after it has passed the thread of the warp; also, one of a set of compartments containing shuttles with different colored threads, which are passed back and forth in a certain order, according to the pattern of the cloth woven. --
Shutten race, a sort of shelf in a loom, beneath the warp, along which the shuttle passes; a channel or guide along which the shuttle passes in a sewing machine. --
Shuttle shell (Zool.), any one of numerous species of marine gastropods of the genus Volva, or Radius, having a smooth, spindle-shaped shell prolonged into a channel at each end. [ 1913 Webster ]
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| Shuttle | 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 ] |
